I'm an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Marquette University. I study the politics of justice and accountability for violations of human rights and the laws of war. 

I'm author of the award-winning book ​Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws against International Crimes, published in 2020 by Oxford University Press. My work has also been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Law & Society Review, Human Rights Quarterly, and the ​European Journal of International Law. My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, and I was previously a guest researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt in Germany.

I'm currently working on a large research project that examines the decades-long persistence of torture in the Chicago Police Department and efforts to achieve justice for the survivors. 
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​You can contact me at [email protected] or follow me on Twitter @mark_berlin.