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Randle DeFalco
Assistant Professor of Law
J.D. Rutgers Law School
LL.M University of Toronto
S.J.D University of Toronto
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About
Assistant Professor of Law Randle DeFalco is a scholar of atrocity, international criminal law, and transitional justice, with an emphasis on slow or otherwise unspectacular forms of mass violence and harm causation, including famine and starvation. He holds a J.D. from Rutgers Law School, where he won the Eli Jarmel Memorial Prize in Public Interest Law. Professor DeFalco also holds LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from the University of Toronto, where he was a Vanier Scholar and received the Faculty of Law’s Alan Marks Outstanding Thesis Medal for his dissertation on the role of aesthetics in international criminal law.
Prior to joining Delaware Law School, Professor DeFalco taught at the University of Hawaii’s William S. Richardson School of Law. He has also held positions as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Liverpool Law School in the UK, a Fulbright Fellow in Cambodia, a Law Associates Fellow at Rutgers Law School, and a Fellow at the national security and international law blog Just Security. Professor DeFalco’s scholarship has appeared in a variety of journals, books, and blogs. His first book, Invisible Atrocities (Cambridge UP, 2022) received an honorable mention for the Law and Society Association’s annual Herbert Jacob book prize.
Professor DeFalco teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, international criminal law, and evidence.
Publications
Books
Invisible Atrocities: The Aesthetic Biases of International Criminal Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Awards: Honorable Mention, 2023 Law and Society Association Herbert Jacob Book Prize.
Book Symposium Issue: 37 Temple J. Int’l & Comp. L.J. (2023)
Issue editor: Mark Drumbl
Contributors: Haley Anderson, Ashley Barnes, Margaret deGuzman, Shannon Fyfe, Adil Haque,
Jocelyn Getgen-Kestenbaum, Rebecca Hamilton, Daimeon Shanks, Scott Sundby, Kerry Whigham
Reviews:
Rachel Killean, J. Int’l Crim. Just. (2024), available here.
Liana G. Minkova, L. & Soc. Inquiry (2023), available here.
Pádraig McAuliffe, 12 Cambridge Int’l L.J. (2023), available here.
Barbora Holá, 16 Genocide Stud. & Prevention (2023), available here.
Sara L. Ochs, Int’l Crim. L. Rev. (2022), available here.
Review Essay: Kempis Songster, Terrell Carter, & Rachel López, Regarding the Other Death Penalty,
124 Colum. L.Rev. F. 114 (2024), available here.
Journal Articles
Reassessing the Rule of Law Legacy of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, 45 U. PA. J. Int’l L. 549 (2024)
Author’s Response: Invisible Atrocities and International Criminal Justice, 37 Temple Int’l & Comp. L.J. 131 (2023).
Ignoring Complex Identifies: Canada’s Continuing Post-Ezokola Overzealous Application of Article 1F(a) of the Refugee Convention, 11 Can. J. Hum. Rts. 1 (2023) (peer-reviewed).
The Fluctuating Visibility of Everyday Violence in Khmer Rouge Era Cambodia, 31 South. CA. Interdisciplinary L.J. 217 (2022) (with Savina Sirik).
Time and the Visibility of Slow Atrocity Violence, 21 INT’L Crim. L. Rev. 905 (2021) (peer-reviewed).
A Coherentist Approach to Incoherent Law? Some Thoughts on Darryl Robinson’s Exploring Justice in Extreme Cases, 35 Temple Int’l & Comp. L.J. 45 (2021) (invited book comment).
The Invisibility of Race at the International Criminal Court: Lessons from the US Criminal Justice System, 7 London Rev. Int’l L. 55 (2019) (with Frédéric Mégret) (peer-reviewed).
The Uncertain Relationship between International Criminal Law Accountability and the Rule of Law in Post-Atrocity States: Lessons from Cambodia, 42 Fordham Int’l L.J. 1 (2018).
Conceptualizing Famine as a Subject of International Criminal Justice: Towards a Modality-Based Approach, 38 U. PA. J. Int’l L. 1113 (2017).
Cases 003 and 004 at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal: The Definition of ‘Most Responsible’ Individuals According to International Criminal Law, 8 Genocide Stud. & Prevention 45 (2014) (peer-reviewed).
Justice and Starvation in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge Famine, 3 Cambodia L. & Pol’y J. 45 (2014).
Contextualizing Actus Reus under Article 25(3)(d) of the ICC Statute: Thresholds of Contribution, 11 J. Int’l Crim. Just. 715 (2013) (peer-reviewed).
Accounting for Famine at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: The Crimes against Humanity of Extermination, Inhumane Acts and Persecution, 5 Int’l J. Transitional Just. 142 (2011) (peer-reviewed).
Joint Criminal Enterprise and the Jurisdiction of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, 63 Rutgers L. Rev. 193 (2010) (with Jared L. Watkins).
The Right to Food in Gaza: Israel’s Obligations under International Law, 35 Rutgers L. Rec. 11 (2009) (student note).
Book Chapters
Ugly Atrocities, Cathartic Prosecutions: International Criminal Justice as an Emotional Salve, in The Aesthetics of International Criminal Law (Caroline Fournet and Mark Drumbl, eds., 2024) 368-384.
Recasting Atrocities as Public Health Catastrophes, in The Aesthetiss and Counter-Aesthetics of International Law (Christine Schwöbel-Patel and Rob Knox, eds., 2024) 168-199.
‘An Unprosecuted Crime’, in Accountability for Mass Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law (Bridget Conley et al., eds., Oxford University Press, 2022) (with Bridget Conley, Senai Abraha, and Alex de Waal) 71-104.
(Re)Conceptualizing Mass Atrocities as Complex Public Health Catastrophes, in Public Health, Mental Health and Mass Atrocity Prevention (Jocelyn Getgen-Kestenbaum et al., eds., Routledge, 2021) 17-31.
Other Writing (Select List)
Re-braiding Frayed Sweetgrass: The Spectacle of Residential School Exhumations and Invisible Anti-Indigenous Atrocity Violence in Canada, Justice in Conflict Blog (Aug. 29, 2022), justiceinconflict.org/2022/08/29 (with Alyssa Couchie).
Opportunism, COVID-19, and Cambodia’s State of Emergency Law, Just Security Blog (Aug. 3, 2020), www.justsecurity.org/71194.
Pompeo’s Personal Stake in the International Criminal Court’s Afghan Investigation, Just Security Blog (June 3, 2020), https://www.justsecurity.org/70560 (with Haley S. Anderson).
Is Pompeo Unintentionally Helping Out the International Criminal Court?, Just Security Blog (Mar. 25, 2020), www.justsecurity.org/69362.
Int’l Criminal Court’s Afghanistan Decision Expands Prosecutor’s Power: What to Expect Next, Just Security Blog (Mar. 6, 2020), www.justsecurity.org/69059.
Senators Call for Prosecution of Gambian Paramilitary Fighter in US Custody, Just Security Blog (Feb. 21, 2020), www.justsecurity.org/68748/.
U.S. Issues Travel Ban on Sri Lankan Military Leader: How It Implicates the Country's President Too, Just Security Blog (Feb. 20, 2020), www.justsecurity.org/68720/.
Sudan Announces Intention to Have al-Bashir and Others “Appear” Before the ICC, Just Security Blog (Feb. 13, 2020), www.justsecurity.org/68643.