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 Sao 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.
His most recent books include A Village Destroyed, May 14, 1999: War Crimes in Kosovo (with Fred Abrahams and Gilles Peress); My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity (edited, with Harvey Weinstein); and The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague; The Guantanamo Effect: Exposing the Consequences of U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices (with Laurel E. Fletcher); Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror (with Alexa Koenig and Victor Peskin); and Silent Witness: Forensic DNA Analysis in Criminal Investigations and Humanitarian Disasters (co-edited with Henry Erlich and Thomas J. White). He has co-produced several 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(PDF file)(link is external),” and and “Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten(link is external).” Eric Stover’s CV
Eric Stover is teaching the following course in Spring 2025:
• 262.65 sec. 001 - Human Rights and Social Justice Writing Workshop
Courses During Other Semesters
| Semester | Course Num | Course Title |  Teaching Evaluations | Fall 2025 | 264.6 sec. 001 | Health and Human Rights Seminar | Fall 2024 | 262.68 sec. 001 | Human Rights and War Crimes Investigations | View Teaching Evaluation | 264.6 sec. 001 | Health and Human Rights | View Teaching Evaluation | Spring 2024 | 262.65 sec. 001 | Human Rights and Social Justice Writing Workshop | View Teaching Evaluation |
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Berkeley’s Human Rights Center Co-Launches Global Guidelines on Investigating Atrocities Online
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk joined the center to officially launch the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations, the world’s first international guidance in this area.
Fighting Impunity: International Criminal Court President Describes Triumphs and Challenges
Keenly aware of threats to the rule of law worldwide, Piotr Hofmański discussed the court’s role in helping safeguard fundamental rights during a recent talk at Berkeley Law.
Rare Feat: Berkeley Law Students Present Their Research at Major International Forum
Selected to discuss their work at the recent event in Miami, where the vast majority of presenters were faculty scholars, “is a big deal,” says Professor Katerina Linos.
A Legacy of Truth: Eric Stover’s Four Decades of Investigating the Forcibly Disappeared
The faculty director of Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center continues to help people worldwide search for an answer to the agonizing question, Where is my child?
A Life in Limbo: After Fleeing Afghanistan, Judge Basira Qazizada Finds a Stopgap Oasis in Berkeley
Now a visiting scholar with Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center, Qazizada is part of a unique program that brings threatened Afghan scholars to the Bay Area.
How Technology Might Bring War Criminals To Justice In Ukraine
Professor Eric Stover, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center, discusses the Berkeley Protocol on Open Source Investigations and why it’s important both for the press and for courts, that information is verified
New Project Tracking Campaign to Curtail Reproductive Rights Showcases Cross-Campus Alliance
A new radio show about Texas’ abortion law strengthens the ties between the Human Rights Center and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Eric Stover Has Spent a Career Unearthing Atrocities
Professor Eric Stover, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center, discusses his mission to shed light on acts of barbarity—and bringing the perpetrators to justice— in relation to massacres such as the Tulsa and Rwandan tragedies
Faculty Members Share Research Findings and Insights Leading Into World Refugee Day
With nearly 80 million refugees and displaced people worldwide, the school’s wide-ranging research identifies core concerns and sensible solutions.
How a racist white mob ruined ‘Black Wall Street’ 100 years ago
Eric Stover, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center, is interviewed about the Tulsa Race Massacre and the PBS documentary he co-produced about it, “Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten”
Hushed History: Berkeley Law’s Eric Stover Co-Produces PBS Film on 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
The documentary, which airs May 31, unpacks the horrific events that killed at least 39 people and destroyed a thriving Black district — and how they were nearly erased from history.
From Economics to History, Recent Books Showcase Depth and Breadth of Faculty Scholarship
Fifteen books published in 2019 and 2020 were highlighted at a recent event, including work by Ian Haney López, Franklin Zimring, and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
PBS to release documentary on Tulsa Race Massacre
PBS announces a documentary premiering in May about the Tulsa Race Massacre, known as the deadliest incident of racial violence in American history, featuring Eric Stover, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center
Rich Slate of New Spring Semester Courses Includes Computer Programming for Lawyers
The list features eight first-time offerings and eight more one-credit classes that are available to upper-class students for the first time.
Berkeley Law Center Creates First Global Protocol on Using Social Media as Evidence for War Crimes
A three-year effort by the Human Rights Center and the U.N. Human Rights Office advances the use of digital information to pursue justice against atrocities.
Human Rights Center’s Eric Stover Hopes Film on Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 Is Wake-up Call
“The Fire and the Forgotten” will air on PBS in May, on the centennial of what’s known as one of the worst incidents in American history of racial violence against Black people.
Veteran Human Rights Researcher Discusses the Tulsa Massacre, Police Brutality and State-Sanctioned Violence
Professor Eric Stover, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center, in an in-depth interview about the Tulsa Massacre, through the lens of history and human rights
Clinic, Center Safeguard Human Rights Close to Home and Around the World
The International Human Rights Law Clinic and Human Rights Center fight injustice through litigation, policy suggestions, advocacy, research, and science-based investigations.
New Faculty Books Feted with Comic Wordplay
Berkeley Law fetes its faculty authors and their most recent books on legal theory, ocean law, juvenile justice and more.
Hiding in Plain Sight Explores the Pursuit of War Criminals, from Mengele to Kony
Six years ago, Eric Stover, Alexa Koenig and Victor Peskin teamed up to try to understand why so many states ignore their legal obligations to arrest and try war crimes suspects.