Bøker av Carsten (Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice Stahn

Confronting Colonial Objects traces recurring justifications and contestations of takings and returns in colonial history through the life story of cultural objects. It develops a theory based on justice, ethics, and human rights that confronts ongoing historic, legal, and economic entanglements and enables normative transformation.

This work is the first to examine the expressive and communicative functions of law in a comprehensive way in the field of atrocity crime. It shows that expression and communication are not only inherent parts of the punitive functions of international criminal justice, but are represented in a whole spectrum of practices.