Book Talk: “The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice”

The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice A Talk by Author Lawrence Douglas

The Schell Center for International Human Rights and The Global History Seminar present a discussion with Lawrence Douglas, the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College, on his recently published book "The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice" (Princeton, 2026) — a sweeping history of the struggle to hold state officials accountable for their gravest crimes. Douglas is the author of several acclaimed works on law and atrocity, including "The Memory of Judgment" and "The Right Wrong Man."