Mark Drumbl Launches New Books in Stockholm, The Hague, Cambridge, and Prague The books are among three new works Drumbl released in the last year.

By Law Communications
February 11, 2025

Mark Drumbl, Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director of Transnational Law Institute at Washington and Lee University School of Law, participated in several book launches recently, traveling to Stockholm, The Hague, Cambridge, and Prague to lead discussions of his recent scholarship.

Drumbl launched one of his new books, “Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions” in January 2025 at the University of Stockholm and in February 2025 at the Asser Institute in The Hague as the Benjamin Ferencz Annual Lecture. A video of the launch in The Hague is available online. Edited by Drumbl and Caroline Fournet, a law professor at the University of Exeter, “Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities” features 29 expert authors examining the dynamics of the five human senses in how atrocity is perceived, remembered, and condemned.

In addition, Drumbl presented “Informers Up Close: Stories from Communist Prague” in February 2025 at Cambridge University and in December 2024 at the Charles University, School of Law, in Prague, Czech Republic.  “Informers Up Close,” produced in collaboration with former W&L scholar in residence and chaired professor of international law at the Free University Amsterdam Barbora Holá, unearths what fuels informers to speak to the secret police in repressive times and considers how transitional justice should approach informers once repression ends. The book has been the subject of a number of online symposia, including at leading international law blogs Opinio Juris and Justice in Conflict, and with reviews forthcoming in several top academic journals.

In addition to these works, Drumbl also published “Children and Violence: Agency, Experience, and Representation in and beyond Armed Conflict.” Coedited with Christelle Molima Bameka, Jastine C. Barrett, Mohamed Kamara, and Karl Hanson, this multi-disciplinary volume provides an innovative approach to children and violence, looking beyond the existing literature that focuses on child soldiers in the “Global South.” The book was born out of a major international law conference held at W&L in 2023 that included dozens of scholars from across the globe. The conference explored children ensnared in violent situations, including the “fights” in which they can become involved, such as armed conflict, liberation struggles, criminalized violence, and securing economic and political well-being.

A sought-after expert on international criminal law, Drumbl also completed an interview with the justiceinfo.net blog on the fate of the International Criminal Court, where he was joined by Mark Freeman, Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Integrated Transitions.

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