Ned Richardson-Little

Call for Papers: Entangling Histories of International Trafficking July 9-10, 2020

August 22, 2019

Location: Erfurt, Germany Date: July 9-10, 2020 Application deadline: September 30, 2019 At the beginning of the 21st century, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime oversaw a complex network of international conventions that aimed to combat narcotics smuggling and the illicit trade in arms, and human trafficking for purposes of exploitation. Today, law…
Special Issue is online: Revisiting State Socialist Approaches to International Criminal and Humanitarian Law

July 3, 2019

Our special issue of the Journal of the History of International Law on “Revisiting State Socialist Approaches to International Criminal and Humanitarian Law” is now online! Everything is paywalled so if you can’t get access, get in touch and I’ll try to find a way get you a copy. Here is the table of contents:…
Genocide in the Best Country in the World

June 30, 2019

The end of Canada would be nothing less than the end of a dream. The end of a country that has made us the envy of the world. Canada is not just any country. It is unique. It is the best country in the world. -Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, 1995 A few years ago, when…
Call for Papers: Africa and the Cold War III

June 28, 2019

I’m co-organizing a conference to be held in Erfurt in September 2020 on Africa and the Cold War. It is the third conference in a series organized by Uni Erfurt and the University of Mekelle and this time we are joined by the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University and the University of Western…
Genocide (a primer on the term) #MMIWG

June 5, 2019

The journal Discard Studies picked up a thread on the historical and legal definition of genocide that I had posted to twitter in connection to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women inquiry. You can check it out here
New Article: Revisiting State Socialist Approaches to International Criminal and Humanitarian Law: An Introduction

April 10, 2019

A sneak preview of the introduction to a collection on state socialism and international law that I wrote with Raluca Grosescu is now available online from the Journal of the History of International Law. The complete collection should be available in a few weeks [Is now online!] ABSTRACT: This introductory essay provides an overview of…
Course Syllabus in Progress: 20th Century Global History: International Crime and International Law

March 19, 2019

I’m currently putting the finishing touches on a new Masters-level course on the history of international crime and international law that I will be teaching next semester. Comments or feedback are welcome! The course description is: “This course will examine the parallel rise of global international criminal networks and international legal systems to combat transnational…
New Book Review: British Human Rights Organizations and Soviet Dissent

January 15, 2019

I have a new book review of Mark Hurst’s British Human Rights Organizations and Soviet Dissent, 1965–1985, which was published today in the Journal of Contemporary History To read it, click here (sadly paywalled) .
Global History of Human Rights since 1750 – An Annotated Syllabus

December 10, 2018

Since it’s human rights day, I thought I would share my syllabus for an undergrad seminar that I’m currently teaching at the University of Erfurt on the history of human rights. I’ve added some shot explanations of the logic behind the readings chosen for each week. Feel free to comment, critique or borrow liberally! Session…
New Article Online: The UDHR in East Germany

December 7, 2018

I’ve got a short piece in this multi-lingual collection at zeitgeschichte-online.de on the history of human rights and humanitarianism, edited by Christoph Plath. Here you can read my post on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in East Germany

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