The Yale Law Journal

Saira Mohamed

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Deviance, Aspiration, and the Stories We Tell: Reconciling Mass Atrocity and the Criminal Law

Saira Mohamed

The historian Raul Hilberg once observed that we would all be happier if we believed the perpetrators of the Holocaust were crazy. But mass atrocity is never so simple. We may search in Germany, Bosnia, the Congo, or Rwanda for the madman or the devi…