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Mark Drumbl

Email: drumblm@wlu.edu
Office: 4004 Sydney Lewis Hall
Phone: 540-458-8531
Fax: 540-458-8488

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Oxford University Lecture

Cambridge University Lecture

Drumbl on Kony 2012 and Child Soliders

The Scholar's Circle: Charles Taylor Trial

"Reimagining Child Soldiers" - Radio Interview (WMRA, Virginia Insight)

"Reimagining Child Soldiers" - Keynote Lecture

Presentation: Yale Law School
Child Soldiers, Justice and the International Legal Imagination


Author's Interview
NYU Law School
Institute for International Law and Justice
Book Review Series


Mark A. Drumbl

Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law & Director, Transnational Law Institute

B.A. 1989, McGill University (first class honors); M.A. 1991, Institut d'études politiques de Paris/McGill University; J.D. 1994, University of Toronto, summa cum laude; LL.M. 1998, J.S.D. 2002, Columbia University.


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Media Appearances

5/8/2012 - Richmond Times-Dispatch
Washington and Lee law professor Mark Drumbl has an op/ed in today's (May 8) Richmond Times-Dispatch on the conviction of Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia. Drumbl argues that the conviction should not distract from the ongoing efforts that are required to deliver justice to the people of Sierra Leone.

4/17/2012 - International Bar Association
Washington and Lee law professor Mark Drumbl comments on reactions to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgment that five Islamic extremists can be extradited to the US to stand trial on terrorism charges.

3/29/2012 - Daily Beast
A blog post about Kony 2012 and child soldiers on the Oxford University Press website by Washington and Lee Law professor Mark Drumbl was cited by Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Beast.

3/15/2012 - MSN Espanol and more
Washington and Lee law professor Mark Drumbl has appeared in several media outlets on the Kony 2012 media campaign and how the effort oversimplifies the problem of child soldiers.

3/10/2012 - Voice of America
Washington and Lee law professor Mark Drumbl comments on the Kony 2012 media campaign and how the effort oversimplifies the problem of child soldiers.

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Law School News about Professor Drumbl

4/4/2012 - W&L Law Professor’s New Book Explores Complex Issue of Child Soldiers
A timely new book from Washington and Lee law professor Mark A. Drumbl examines the complex problem of child soldiering and presses the international community to rethink its approaches to the problem.

3/9/2012 - W&L Law Professor Says Kony 2012 Oversimplifies Problem of Child Soldiers
A Washington and Lee University law professor who has written extensively about child soldiers believes the Kony 2012 Campaign unduly simplifies the problem of child soldiering.

5/3/2010 - Article in Online Journal Neoamericanist Cites Drumbl Scholarship
Law professor Mark Drumbl's work on the expressive value of prosecuting and punishing terrorists is cited extensively in an article on the closing of Guantanamo Bay in the Spring/Summer 2010 edition of Neoamericanist.

7/6/2009 - Law Professor’s Work Cited by UK High Court
Washington and Lee law professor Mark Drumbl's research on the Rwandan genocide trials influenced a recent United Kingdom High Court of Justice decision involving the extradition to Rwanda of four high-profile genocide suspects.

4/9/2009 - Law Professor’s Book Honored by International Law Organizations
The American Society of International Law has selected Washington and Lee Law Professor Mark Drumbl's recent book as first runner-up for its 2009 Certificate of Merit for Creative Scholarship. This prize is among the most prestigious publishing awards globally in the field of international law.

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For the Media

Professor Drumbl is available to be interviewed on the following subjects:

• Contract Law 
• International Law 
• Iraq 
• Terrorism 
• War Crimes Trials 

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