From Timbuktu to The Hague

Speaker: Professor Mark Drumbl

Chair: Dr Rachel Kerr

Mark A. Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor at Washington & Lee University, School of Law, where he also serves as Director of the Transnational Law Institute.  He has held visiting appointments with a number of law faculties, including Oxford, Paris II (Pantheon-Assas), Trinity College, Dublin, Melbourne, Monash, and Ottawa.  His scholarly interests include public international law, international criminal justice, and transnational legal process.  His books Atrocity, Punishment and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Research Handbook on Child Soldiers (Elgar, 2019, co-edited with Jastine Barrett) have been widely reviewed and have earned critical acclaim. He holds degrees in law and politics from McGill University, University of Toronto, and Columbia University.

The War Crimes Research Group (WCRG) conducts research and teaching on war crimes – understood in the broadest sense – and war.   The Group is based in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London and led by Professor James Gow and Dr Rachel Kerr. 

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