Leila Ullrich is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford. She works at the crossroads of international criminal justice, transitional justice, victimology, and border criminology. She is particularly interested in how global criminal justice institutions create gendered and racialized subjects, and how these subjects (victims, refugees, and racialized communities) engage with and resist these processes. She approaches these questions using feminist, decolonial, and critical political economy theories while also developing new bottom-up research methods such as qualitative WhatsApp surveying. Leila was previously a Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary University and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford.
Who labours for international justice under conditions of global capitalism? With remarkable ease and elegance, Leila Ullrich navigates the difficult question of labour at the International Criminal Court, and in criminal justice more generally. By bringing together fascinating fieldwork experiences with profound knowledge of critical theory, Ullrich makes her thesis on victims as racialised and gendered labourers come alive. Ultimately, this excellent book is an urgent invitation to consider abolition, reparations, and resistance in the wider field of international justice. A necessary and rewarding read for anyone interested in international justice and its relationship to the pathologies of global capitalism. * Christine Schwöbel-Patel, Professor of Law, University of Warwick * Leila Ullrich's The Blame Cascade is a brilliant addition to the burgeoning literature on the role of victims within the International Criminal Court. Drawing on Marxist theory and engaging with gender- and race-based critiques of international criminal law, Ullrich shows - through rich empirical and theoretical investigation - how the ICC tries to turn Global South atrocity victims into subservient capitalist subjects. This book is essential reading for scholars and practitioners wanting to understand the often problematic 'invisible labour' of international criminal justice. * Phil Clark, Professor of International Politics, SOAS University of London *