Richard Ashby Wilson

Richard Ashby Wilson is an American-British social anthropologist of law and human rights.[1] He is the Gladstein Distinguished Professor of Human Rights and Professor of Anthropology and Law at the University of Connecticut.[2] Wilson established the interdisciplinary Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut and was the Director of the Human Rights Institute from 2003 to 2013.[3] Wilson is one of the founders of the anthropology of human rights and was editor and an author of Human Rights, Culture and Context (1997), the first edited volume in the field of the anthropology of human rights.[4]

Wilson argued that anthropology needed to go beyond the universalism/relativism debate and study empirically the globalization of human rights in specific locales.[5] Wilson’s subsequent work in the anthropology of law has analyzed the operation of national truth and reconciliation commissions and international criminal courts. His recent book Writing History in International Criminal Trials (Cambridge University Press, 2011) was selected by Choice Magazine as an "Outstanding Academic Title" in January 2012.[6] In "Writing History in International Criminal Trials", Wilson examines the role that history plays in international criminal proceedings.[7]

Ashby's 2017 book Incitement on Trial: Prosecuting International Speech Crimes deals with incitement to genocide and related offenses against international criminal law.[8]

References
  1. Vered Talai (2008, ed.) A Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. New York: Routledge.
  2. "Richard A. Wilson | UConn School of Law". Law.uconn.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
  3. Richard Wilson. "Richard Wilson› Human Rights Institute› UCONN". Humanrights.uconn.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
  4. Michael Goodhart. "Human Rights: Politics and Practice". Books.google.com. p. 99. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
  5. Thomas Hylland Eriksen (2010) Small Places, Big Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology, London: Pluto Press, page 175.
  6. "Outstanding Academic Titles - CHOICE Reviews Online". Cro3.org. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
  7. "Book Review: Writing History in International Criminal Trials by Richard Ashby Wilson | LSE Review of Books". Blogs.lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
  8. Wilson, Richard Ashby (2017). Incitement on Trial: Prosecuting International Speech Crimes. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-10310-8.
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