I am Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, in the UK.

I work on the intellectual history and literature of the 20th century, and I’ve written books on war, justice, war-time trials, statelessness, human rights and Hannah Arendt.

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Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights

Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities

The Judicial Imagination