Michael S. Bryant

Michael S. Bryant is a Professor in the Department of History and Social Sciences at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, where he specializes in the impact of the Holocaust on the law, human rights, German criminal law, and international humanitarian law. Professor Bryant is the author of Confronting the "Good Death": Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-53 (University Press of Colorado, 2005), Eyewitness to Genocide: the Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials 1955-66 (University of Tennessee Press, 2014), and A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to the Present (Bloomsbury, 2015, 2nd substantially revised edition 2021). In 2015 Eyewitness to Genocide received the Book of the Year Award from the American National Chapter, Association Internationale de Droit Penal. His fourth book, Nazi Crimes and their Punishment, which was published in March 2020, was recognized as an Outstanding Title by Choice in December 2021. His most recent books are co-authored works: Comparative Law: Global Legal Traditions (August 2021) and Hitler's Mein Kampf and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide (March 2022).