Christopher Hale

Thesis title:

NEVER AGAIN? The Challenges of Prevention under the Genocide Convention

My research will explore the legal challenges of genocide prevention under the UN Genocide Convention (1948). The purpose of the Convention is to ‘punish and prevent’ what is sometimes called ‘the crime of crimes’. Is the axiom ‘never again’ merely a slogan that can never be enforced under international law?

Research Area

Publications

I have written a number of non-fiction (non academic) books focused on the Holocaust and colonialism:

Himmler's Crusade: the Nazi Expedition to find the Origins of the Aryan Race (2002)

Hitler's Foreign Executioners: Europe's Dirty Secret (2008, 2021)

Massacre in Malaya: Britain's My Lai (2013)

Deception: How the Nazis Tricked the Last Jews of Europe (2019)

A Brief History of Singapore and Malaysia (2023)

I am currently writing:

A history of the East Africa Groundnuts Scheme (1947-1952) for Hurst Publishers

'Crime of Crimes: A Short History of Genocide' for Reaktion Books.

My LLM thesis was published in an edited version here:

https://journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj/article/view/5294