Professor Pendas' research focuses on war crimes trials after World War II, particularly on West German Holocaust trials. He is currently working on two projects: a history of Nazi trials in German courts in all occupation zones from 1945 to 1950, to be published by Cambridge University Press; and a synthetic history of law and mass violence in the modern period.聽Dr. Pendas has authored 鈥淭oward a New Politics? On the Recent Historiography of Human Rights鈥� (Contemporary European History); 鈥淩etroactive Law and Proactive Justice: Debating Crimes against Humanity in Germany, 1945-1950鈥� (Central European History); 鈥淚nterrogating Torture: Human Rights, the War on Terror, and the Fate of America鈥� (Journal of American Studies); 鈥淧unishment as Prevention? The Politics of Punishing G茅nocidaires鈥� (Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies); 鈥淓xplaining Nazism: Ethics, Beliefs and Interests鈥� (Modern Intellectual History). He is also the series editor for a book series with Bloomsbury Press,聽Genocide in Comparative Perspective.聽
