Eric Stover
Co-Faculty Director
Human Rights Center
Bio
Eric Stover is Co-Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center and Research Professor of Law at UC Berkeley. With forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow, Stover launched the first forensic investigations of the disappeared in Central and South America. In 1985, he participated in the forensic investigation of the remains of the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in São Paulo, Brazil. In the 1990s, he served on several medico-legal investigations as an “Expert on Mission” to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He also conducted the first research on the social and medical consequences of land mines in Cambodia and other post-war countries. His research helped launch the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, which received the Nobel Prize in 1997. He conducted a survey of mass graves throughout Rwanda for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1995 which provided lead evidence on several high-level accused. He serves as an Expert to the International Commission on Missing Persons and the Board of Directors of DNA Bridge. Stover has co-produced several BBC and PBS documentaries, including “The Search for the Disappeared in Argentina,” “Dead Reckoning: War, Crime, and Justice from World War II to the War on Terror,” and “Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten.” Click here to download Eric Stover’s CV.
Books
- A Village Destroyed, May 14, 1999: War Crimes in Kosovo (with Fred Abrahams and Gilles Peress).
- My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity (with Harvey M. Weinstein).
- The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague
- Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror (with Alexa Koenig and Victor Peskin).
- The Guantánamo Effect: Exposing the Consequences of U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices, (with Alexa Koenig, Laurel Fletcher, Stephen Smith Cody, and others)
- Silent Witness: Forensic DNA Analysis in Criminal Investigations and Humanitarian Disasters (co-edited with Henry Erlich and Thomas J. White).
- Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (with
- Witnesses from the Grave (with Christopher Joyce)
- The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar (with Gilles Peress)
Publications
- Bearing Witness: Testimony and Transitional Justice in the Aftermath of Mass Violence, Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture (S. Smith-Cody, E. Stover).
- Finding a Middle Ground? International Humanitarian Aid Organizations, Information Sharing, and the Pursuit of International Justice, Human Rights Quarterly (E. Stover, Sarah Craggs, Tiffany Debuzman, Ivey Dawson, Helena von Nagy, Bryce Rosenbower).
- Breaking the Silence: Advocacy and Accountability for Attacks on Hospitals in Armed Conflict, International Review of the Red Cross (Lara Hakki, E. Stover, Rohini Haar).
- Joining Forces: National War Crimes Units and the Pursuit of International Justice, Human Rights Quarterly, Elise Baker, Lara Hakki, Julia Jacovides, Kristina Steinmetz, E. Stover, Victoria Tory, Fabian Unser-Nad).
Media Appearances
- Eric Stover Has Spent a Career Unearthing Atrocities, California Magazine
- A Legacy of Truth: Forty Years of Investigating the Forcibly Disappeared, #Verified by the Human Rights Center
- Hushed History: Berkeley Law’s Eric Stover co-produces PBS film on 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Berkeley Law
- Pursuit and Prosecution of War Criminals, C-Span
- Un viaje, una pregunta y una respuesta, Historias de una búsqueda Podcast
Classes
- Health and Human Rights: Law 264.6, Public Health 211, with Rohini Haar
- Human Rights Research and Practice, Legal Studies 154, with Alexa Koenig
- Human Rights and Social Justice Writing Workshop (Law 262.65), with Carolyn “Patty” Blum and Alexa Koenig
- Human Rights and War Crimes Investigations (L262.68), with Alexa Koenig
- International Human Rights Law Clinic (L295.5H)
- Advanced International Human Rights Law Clinic (L295.HI)
- Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders: Justice After Mass Atrocity (L262.9)
- On Trial: Prosecuting Genocide and Sexual Violence in International Tribunals (L264.9)