Leyla Belle Drake

PhD student at Institutionen för idéhistoria

E-mail:
leyla.belle.drake@idehist.uu.se
Visiting address:
Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3P
Postal address:
Box 629
751 26 UPPSALA

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I am a PhD candidate at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, and also affiliated with the Engaging Vulnerability research program, since 2018. My research interests concern international criminal law and its historical intersections with political activism, NGOs, and fact-finding in war and conflict. My dissertation explores the methods and epistemological assumptions of the 1967 International War Crimes Tribunal, commonly known as the Russell Tribunal.

Keywords

  • commissions of inquiry
  • fact-finding missions
  • human rights history
  • international criminal law
  • peoples tribunals
  • testimony studies
  • war crimes
  • witness studies

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Leyla Belle Drake

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