Carolyn J. Dean, "The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Carolyn J. Dean\u2019s The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide (Cornell University Press, 2019) examines the cultural history of the idea of the \u201cwitness to genocide\u201d in Western Europe and the United States.\xa0 She portrays the witness in non-traditional genocide court trials as the moral compass.\xa0 In fact, many of these \u201cmoral witnesses\u201d were not utilized for their testimony to identify perpetrators or mass murder, but rather a symbolic voice for survivor\u2019s that would not normally be admissible in traditional legal proceedings.\nDr. Dean is the Charles J. Still Professor of History and French at Yale University and is the author of several other books focused on morality and genocide.\xa0 The Moral Witness is part of the Cornell University Press\u2019s series Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies