Always innocent? Child Soldiers, justice and the international legal imagination

Mark A. Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Chair Professor at Washington & Lee University, School of Law, where he also serves as Director of the Transnational Law Institute.

His research and teaching interests include public international law, international criminal law, and transitional justice.

His book, Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2007) has been widely reviewed and has won awards from the International Association of Criminal Law (U.S. national section) and the American Society of International Law.

He has taught in various jurisdictions, including Uganda, Pakistan, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, and Finland; has worked in criminal defense in Rwanda; has served as an expert in U.S. courts; and his scholarship also has been cited by courts in Canada and the United Kingdom. He holds degrees in law and political science from McGill, Toronto, and Columbia universities.