Felix Butz
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Last updated: 1 September 2026

Research

Following my dissertation “Polizei und Massendaten” (Police and Mass Data), I am currently working on a socio-legal critique of structural violence in international criminal law — in particular, how necropolitics and structural violence expose the limits of international criminal prosecution.

Talks

  • International Criminal Law and Necropolitical Structural Violence — Criminological and Zemiological Reflections Eurocrim 2026, Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Warsaw, 9–12 September 2026
  • Mere Mirage? Critiquing the International Crime of Ecocide as a Project of Inadequate Responsibilisation in the Anthropocene Young Scholars’ Conference 2026 “Remaking Responsibility. Environmental Harm, Care, and Accountability”, Futures of Sustainability, University of Hamburg, 7–9 October 2026
  • Victims of Order: Structural Violence, Necropolitics, and the Limits of International Criminal Law(?) 15th Annual CILJ Conference “Reimagining International Law: Critical, Regional, and Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives”, University of Cambridge
  • The Responsibility Gap: Structural Violence, International Criminal Law, and the Crisis of State Responsibility(?) HRIC Workshop “State Responsibility in Crisis”, University of Bristol

In the Media