Devin O. Pendas

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Devin O. Pendas is an American historian.

Life

Devin Owen Pendas studied history at Carleton College and the University of Chicago . In 1992 he became a research assistant with Michael Geyer in Chicago and in 1995 a lecturer. He received his PhD in Chicago in 2000.

Pendas has taught history at Boston College since 2000 , as an assistant professor since 2003, and has also worked in a research group at Harvard University since 2008 . His research focuses on new German history, on international law and on the history of genocide.

Fonts (selection)

  • "I didn't know what Auschwitz was." The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and the German Press 1963–1965. In: Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, Volume 12, Number 2, Summer 2000 ISSN  1041-6374
  • Truth and its consequences: reflections on political, historical and legal "truth" in West German holocaust trials . in: Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte , 2004, pp. 1–25
  • The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, 1963-1965 . Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006
    • The Auschwitz Trial: Genocide in Court . With an afterword to the German edition. Translation by Klaus Binder . Munich: Siedler, 2013
  • "The Magical Scent of the Savage". Colonial Violence, the Crisis of Civilization, and the Origins of the Legalist Paradigm of War , In: Boston College International and Comparative Law Review , Vol. 30, 2007, No. 1, pp. 29-53
  • Testimony , in: Miriam Dobson; Benjamin Ziemann: Reading primary sources: the interpretation of texts from nineteenth and twentieth century history . London: Routledge, 2009 ISBN 978-0-415-42956-6 , pp. 226-242
  • Toward a World Law? Human Rights and the Failure of the Legalist Paradigm of War . In: Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (Ed.): Human rights in the twentieth century . Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011 ISBN 978-0-521-19426-6 , pp. 215-236
    • On the way to a global legal system? Human rights and the failure of the legalistic paradigm of war . in: Moral Policy: History of Human Rights in the 20th Century . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2010, pp. 226–255
  • The I. Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965. A historical introduction . Translation by Klaus Binder. In: Raphael Gross ; Werner Renz (Ed.): The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963-1965): annotated source edition . Volume 1, Frankfurt: Campus, 2013, pp. 55–85

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SURNAME Pendas, Devin O.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pendas, Devin Owen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century