Book launch: Calibrating Colonial Crime by Joshua Castellino

Event date
11 July 2024
Event time
17:00 - 18:15
Oxford week
TT 12
Audience
Anyone
Venue
Bonavero Institute of Human Rights - Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium
Speaker(s)

Prof Patti Sellers, Prof John Knox, Prof Joshua Castellino

Notes & Changes

This event is open to anyone but priority will be given to members of the University, particularly students and tutors of the Summer School in International Human Rights Law and the MSc in International Human Rights Law. This is an in-person event.  

Leading international criminal lawyer Professor Sellers will reflect on the efficacy of tools within international criminal law to address the matter of colonial crime. Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Environment & Human Rights John Knox will address the link between colonial crime and environmental degradation. Both speakers will seek to comment on the extent to which the book https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/calibrating-colonial-crime offers insights into the debate on reparations and system change. 

Cover of 'Calibrating Colonial Crime' by Joshua Castellino. Copyright - Bristol University Press
Cover of 'Calibrating Colonial Crime' by Joshua Castellino. Image copyright - Bristol University Press

Author

Joshua Castellino is the Co-Director of Minority Rights Group International, and a Professor of International & Comparative Law at the University of Derby 

 

Respondents

Prof John Knox is a Professor of International Law at the Wake Forest Law School, USA

Prof Patti Sellers is an International criminal lawyer and Special Adviser on Slavery Crimes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Found within

Human Rights Law