Prof. Mark Osiel (June 2009)

Mark Osiel, a Professor of Law at the College of Law, University of Iowa visited ACIC in June 2009 to give a research seminar on legal responses to mass atrocity to our students. At the time Mark Osiel was serving as Director of International Criminal and Humanitarian Law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague. His scholarship seeks to show how legal responses to mass atrocity can be improved by understanding its organizational dynamics, as revealed through comparative social and historical analysis. His most recent books are Trying Tyrants: Making Sense of Mass Atrocity (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008), and The End of Reciprocity: Terror, Torture & the Law of War (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008).

Several times a year ACIC invites a distinguished (foreign) scholar to extensively discuss and explore specific topics of interest with students in a so-called ‘research seminar’ (2 ECTS). A maximum of fifteen students will be selected to join these two-day seminars in which they have the possibility to delve into the respective topic together with the renowned scholar. Mark Osiel was the first scholar invited to give our students a research seminar. During this intensive two day course Osiel ensured a lively debate and lively discussions and students were extremely enthusiastic about this research seminar.

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