Eric Stover

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.