Meierhenrich, Jens


Dr Jens Meierhenrich  

Department

Position held

Department of International Relations

Senior Lecturer

Non LSE positions held

Department

Position held

Harvard University

Assistant Professor of Government and of Social Studies

University of Tokyo

Visiting Associate Professor of Law

Experience keywords:

foreign, comparative, and international law; genocide; international courts and international organizations; transitional justice; conflict resolution; war crimes; crimes against humanity

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

LawPolicy and Regulatory BodiesPublic Administration

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Europe; Africa; Asia

Languages:

German [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream pressTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7129

Publications

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2012

Meierhenrich, Jens (2012) Genocide: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Meierhenrich, Jens (2012) Genocide: a reader. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

2011

Meierhenrich, Jens (2011) Topographies of remembering and forgetting: the transformation of Lieux de Mémoire in Rwanda. In: Straus, Scott and Waldorf, Lars, (eds.) Remaikng Rwanda: state builging and human rights after mass violence. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, pp. 283-296. ISBN 9780299282646

2009

Meierhenrich, Jens (2009) The transformation of lieux de mémoire: the Nyabarongo River in Rwanda, 1992-2009. Anthropology today, 25 (5). pp. 13-19. ISSN 0268-540X

Meierhenrich, Jens and Ko, Keiko (2009) How do states join the International Criminal Court?: the implementation of the Rome Statute in Japan. Journal of international criminal justice, 7 (2). pp. 233-256. ISSN 1478-1395

Meierhenrich, Jens (2009) The study of international law. In: King, Gary and Nie, Norman H. and Schlozman, Kay I., (eds.) The future of political science: 100 perspectives. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 193-195. ISBN 9780415997010

Meierhenrich, Jens (2009) The language of Klemperer. In: Jones, Adam, (ed.) Evoking genocide: scholars and activists describe the works that shaped their lives. Key Publishing, Toronto, Canada. ISBN 9780978252694

2008

Meierhenrich, Jens (2008) The foundations of constitutionalism: an analysis of debaathification. Constitutional political economy, 19 (4). pp. 277-300. ISSN 1043-4062

Meierhenrich, Jens (2008) Judicial networks. In: Langlois, Anthony J. and Soltan, Karol Edward, (eds.) Global democracy and its difficulties. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415776523

Meierhenrich, Jens (2008) Book review: the UN International Criminal Tribunals: the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone: a review essay. American journal of international law, 102 (3). pp. 696-703. ISSN 0002-9300

Meierhenrich, Jens (2008) Varieties of reconciliation. Law & social inquiry, 33 (1). pp. 195-231. ISSN 0897-6546

Meierhenrich, Jens (2008) The legacies of law: long-run consequences of legal development in South Africa, 1652-2000. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521898737

2007

Meierhenrich, Jens (2007) The trauma of genocide. Journal of genocide research, 9 (4). pp. 549-573. ISSN 1462-3528

Meierhenrich, Jens (2007) Perpetual war: a pragmatic sketch. Human rights quarterly, 29 (3). pp. 631-673. ISSN 0275-0392

2006

Meierhenrich, Jens (2006) Presidential and parliamentary elections in Rwanda, 2003. Electoral studies, 25 (3). pp. 627-634. ISSN 0261-3794

Meierhenrich, Jens (2006) A question of guilt. Ratio juris, 19 (3). pp. 314-342. ISSN 0952-1917

Meierhenrich, Jens (2006) Ethics of lustration. Ethics & international affairs, 20 (1). pp. 99-120. ISSN 0892-6794

Meierhenrich, Jens (2006) Analogies at war. Journal of conflict and security law, 11 (1). pp. 1-40. ISSN 1467-7954

Meierhenrich, Jens (2006) Conspiracy in international law. Annual review of law and social science, 2 pp. 341-357. ISSN 1550-3585

2004

Meierhenrich, Jens (2004) Forming states after failure. In: Rotberg, Robert I., (ed.) When states fail: causes and consequences. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, pp. 153-169. ISBN 0691116717

Honeyman, Catherine and Hudani, Shakirah and Tiruneh, Alfa and Hierta, Justina and Chirayath, Leila and Iliff, Andrew and Meierhenrich, Jens (2004) Establishing collective norms: potentials for participatory justice in Rwanda. Peace and conflict: journal of peace psychology, 10 (1). pp. 1-24. ISSN 1078-1919

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Personal website

This award-winning book examines the function of law in the transition to – and from – apartheid. It demonstrates how legal norms and institutions, even illiberal ones, can help make democracy work.

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Awards

Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Mid-Career Fellowship, British Academy; Research Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust; Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association; Bellagio Center Residential Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation; Faculty Fellowship, American Bar Foundation; Abe Fellowship, Social Science Research Council; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Predoctoral Fellowship, Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University; Rhodes Scholarship, Rhodes Trust

 

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