Professor Eric Stover: "Confronting Comrade Duch: Civil Parties and their Experiences Testifying before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia"

Professor Eric Strover holds the position of Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley (USA). He is considered to be a pioneer in utilizing empirical research methods to address emerging issues in human rights and international humanitarian law. Before coming to Berkeley in 1996, Professor Stover served as the Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights and the Director of the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As "Expert on Mission" for the ICTY and ICTR, he conducted several forensic missions to investigate mass graves in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. In the early 1990s, Stover conducted the first research on the social and medical consequences of land mines in Cambodia and other post-war countries. His research was instrumental in launching the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, which received the Nobel Prize in 1997. Professor Stover is a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Transitional Justice and Human Rights Quarterly and a board member of the Crimes of War Project.