Law and Inhumanity

Luigi Corrias is Associate Professor in the Department of Legal Theory and Legal History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of The Passivity of Law: Competence and Constitution in the European Court of Justice (2011), for which the Netherlands Association for Philosophy of Law awarded him the Prize for the Best Dissertation in Legal Philosophy in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2009–10. For his research on Law and Inhumanity, he received a fellowship from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) in 2019–2020.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Atrocity crimes, the community of humanity, and the experience of inhumanity; 2. 'We' and crimes against humanity; 3. Crimes against humanity, dehumanization and rehumanization: the case of Duch; 4. Estranged from the World: the experience of dehumanization and its normative implications; 5. Law, time, and inhumanity: judging the imprescriptible; 6. Silent claims and the limits of international criminal law; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.