International Criminal Law Faculty Mark Drumbl and Shannon Fyfe Speak at Events in Germany Professor Drumbl spoke at an event in Nuremberg on children in armed conflict, and Professor Fyfe spoke in Munich at event on academic debates concerning Israel and Palestine.

By Law Communications
October 15, 2024

Mark Drumbl, Class of 1975 Alumni Professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, spoke this month at a major international conference held in Nuremberg, Germany. Entitled "For Every Child: Protecting Children's Rights in Armed Conflict," the event addressed the phenomenon of children afflicted by armed conflict. The full program is available online.

The event was held in the courtroom used to prosecute Nazi war criminals in 1946. Professor Drumbl was one of a few academics invited to participate in this gathering mostly comprised of UN officials, members of the International Criminal Court, and members of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. Fellow W&L Law professor Shannon Fyfe was also in attendance at this event.

While abroad, Professor Fyfe spoke at a workshop at Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich, Germany titled "Feeling Responsible: Affective Polarization and the Sense of Implication in Academic Debates on Israel/Palestine." The event was part of a larger project on discourses of mass violence in comparative perspective, and Professor Fyfe presented a paper called "Identities, Solidarities, and Crossing Polarization."

Professor Drumbl's two co-authored and co-edited books published in the summer of 2024 continue to garner significant attention. "Informers Up Close" (Oxford University Press, 2024) is the focus of online symposia at the two main international law blogs, Opinio Juris and Justice in Conflict. In all, eleven discussants published pieces commenting on the book.

In September, Professor Drumbl launched "Informers Up Close" and his newest book, "Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions" (Brill, 2024), at the annual meeting of the European Society of Criminologists held in Bucharest, Romania. "Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities" is the subject of book launches at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom in November 2024 and again in Stockholm, Sweden, in January 2025.

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