Mark Antaki, a PhD candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy plans in his dissertation, Crimes Against Humanity what he calls a “genealogy” of the concept of crimes against humanity, hoping in that process to gain insight into the modern person’s self-understanding, and understanding of his/her relation to law. How, Antaki asks, has it become possible, in modernity, to conceive of a “crime against humanity” and bring it into the realm of positive law? What are the implications of this development for our understanding of law and jurisdiction, politics and membership?