Eric Stover

Eric Stover serves as Research Professor of Law and Co-Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley. His career spans decades of pioneering forensic human rights investigations globally, including the first examinations of the disappeared in Central and South America with Clyde Snow, forensic analysis of Josef Mengele's remains in Brazil (1985), and critical medico-legal work for international tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda during the 1990s.

His research expertise encompasses:

• Human Rights and International Law
• Forensic Science Applications in Atrocity Investigations
• War Crimes Documentation and Prosecution
• Evidence Collection and Legal Admissibility
• Land Mine Policy and Humanitarian Consequences
• Social Reintegration in Post-Conflict Societies

Stover's groundbreaking research on land mines in Cambodia directly catalyzed the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines (Nobel Peace Prize 1997). His 1995 survey of Rwandan mass graves provided pivotal evidence for the International Criminal Tribunal. He has authored influential books including Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror and Silent Witness: Forensic DNA Analysis in Criminal Investigations, while co-producing PBS documentaries like Dead Reckoning and Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten.

As Co-Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center, Stover leads a multidisciplinary team advancing human rights through forensic innovation, policy advocacy, and public education. His work bridges legal theory with field investigations, establishing methodologies for documenting atrocities that remain foundational in international justice mechanisms worldwide.