Prof. Hilary Earl

Articles in Refereed Journals, Refereed Book Chapters, and Refereed Edited Collections 

2026 “Law and History: Raul Hilberg, the Nuremberg Trial Documents, & Narrative Legacies of the  ‘Final Solution,’” pp. 78-113, in René Schlott and Wulf Kansteiner, eds., With a Penetrating Gaze from the Sidelines: Raul Hilberg, the Destruction of the European Jews, and History of Holocaust Historiography. Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust (New York: Berghahn Books). 

2024 “A Pedagogy of Witnessing: Reading and Interpreting the December 15, 1941 Šķēde-execution Photographs in the University Classroom,” chapter 8 in Valerie Hébert editor, Framing the Holocaust: Photographs of a Mass Shooting in Latvia, 1941 (University of Wisconsin Press and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), 223-250.  

2020 “Nazi Perpetrators and the Law: Postwar Trials, Courtroom Testimony, and Debates about the Motives of Nazi War Criminals,” in Susanne C. Knittel and Zachary J. Goldberg, editors, The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies. Chapter 9, pp. 109-119. 

 2017 “Legacies of the Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial 70 years after,” Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, vol. 39 (Winter 2017): 95-115.  

2015 “`Bad Nazis and other Germans’: The fate of SS-Einsatzgruppen Commander Martin Sandberger in postwar Germany,” in eds., David Messenger and Katrin Paehler, A Nazi Past: Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press): 61-90. 

2014 “A Judge, a Prosecutor, and a Mass Murderer: Dynamics in the SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial,” in Kim Christian Priemel and Alexa Stiller (eds.), Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography Paperback and E-book (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books and Oxford University Press): 47-73. E-book: Read more 

2013 “Prosecuting Genocide before the Genocide Convention: Raphael Lemkin and the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949,” in Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 15, no. 3 (September 2013): 317-338. Read more  

 2013 “Beweise, Zeugen, Narrative: Der Einsatzgruppen Prozess und seine Wirkung auf die historische Forschung zur Genese der ‚Endlösung‘“ in Kim Christian Priemel and Alexa Stiller (Hg./eds.),  NMT. Die Nürnberger Militärtribunale zwischen Geschichte, Gerechtigkeit und Rechtschöpfung (Hamburg: Hamburger edition): 127-157. 

 2012 “A Judge, a Prosecutor, and a Mass Murderer: Dynamics in the SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial,” in Kim Christian Priemel and Alexa Stiller (eds.), Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography hardcover (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books and Oxford University Press): 47-73.  

2008 “Biographies of Criminals or Criminal Biographies: Explaining Perpetrators’ ‘Route to Crime’ using War Crimes Trial Documentation,” in Simone Lässig and Volker Berghahn (eds.), Biography between Structure and Agency: Approaches to German History (New York and London: Berghahn Books and Oxford University Press, 2008): 162-181. 

Review Essays 

2026 Review essay, “New Approaches to the Study of Post World War II Trials of Nazi-era Crime: A Comparative Review of Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe: A People’s Justice? Eric Le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva, and Vanessa Voisin (eds.). Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2022 and Making Justice Visible: War Crimes Trials, Media and Memory after World War II, Ruth Leiserowitz, Gintaré Malinauskaité, Hektoras Vitkus (eds.) Osnabrück: Fibre Verlag, 2022. In Slavic Review (Cambridge University Press). 

 2023 Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg. A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 542 pp. pp. Central European History, vol. 56,  no. 1 (2023): 136-137. 
 

 2022 Review essay of Raul Hilberg. The Anatomy of the Holocaust: Selected Works from the Life of Scholarship, Walter Pehle and René Schlott eds. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2020) and German Railroads/Jewish Souls. The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy and the Final Solution (New York: Berghahn Books, 2020). Journal of Modern History, volume 93, number 4, (December 2021): 987-989. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jmh/current 

Book Chapters, Edited  

2025 “Looming Larger than Life: Benjamin Ferencz and the Legacy of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials,” Chapter 94, in Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Marcia Sachs Littell, and Michael Bazyler eds., Building Bridges Among Abraham’s Children: A Celebration of Michael Berenbaum (Newton, MA: Academic Studies Press). 

 2018 “War, Atrocity, and Genocide,” in Matthew Muehlbauer & David Ulbrich, editors, The Routledge History of Global War and Society (New York: Routledge). Chapter 19, pp. 24-35. 

Film Discussions, Edited  

2018 “‘One-Night-Stand’ und Massenmord. Diskussionsforum Die Blumen von Gestern Mit Hilary Earl/Dagmar Herzog/Christian Ingrao/Elissa Mailänder/Rainer Rother und Moshe Zimmermann,” in Klaus Latzel, Elissa Mailänder, und Franka Maubach, Herausgegeben,  Geschlechterbeziehungen und “Volksgemeinschaft”. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus, Band 34 (Goettingen: Wallstein Verlag, September):197-212.  

Legal Briefs 

2011 Co-author, Amicus Curiae Nuremberg Scholars Brief, Doe, et al v. Nestle, S.A. et al, CV. 05-5122 SVW (JTLx) Sept. 8, 2011, 748 F.Supp.2d 1057 (2011). 

2010 Co-author, Amicus Curiae Nuremberg Scholars Brief, Ester Kiobel, et al. v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Shell Transport and Trading Company PLC, Nos. 06-4800-cv, 06-4876-cv (2d Cir. Sept. 17, 2010) http://www.supremeobserver.com/case-document/?doc=90  http://opiniojuris.org/2011/12/23/nuremberg-scholars-amicus-brief-in-kiobel/ 

2009 Co-author, Amicus Curiae Nuremberg Scholars Brief, The Presbyterian Church of Sudan, et al. v. Talisman Energy, Inc., No.07-0016, 2009 WL 3151804 (2d Cir. Oct. 2, 2009)  http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/09-1262_Amicus-brief-of-Nuremberg-Scholars-Omer-Bartov-et-al..pdf