Tyrants, Violence and the Rules that Run the World: An Interview with Professor Leif Wenar - a podcast by The Verdict: Law & Society

What links the sale of natural resources like oil with some of the world's bloodiest conflicts and how can consumers and nation states confront their role in these crises?

Professor Leif Wenar is Chair of Philosophy and Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law. In 2016 he published 'Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence and the Rules that Run the World' (OUP), exploring the way in which oil has become one of the largest sources of unaccountable power.

In this interview with Dr Anna Loutfi, Professor Wenar discusses the resource curse and its links to civil war, instability and authoritarianism, while also providing ways the rest of the world can better legislate against the sale of blood oil.

Find out more about Clean Trade, the NGO Professor Wenar has established to help end the sale of blood oil and conflict minerals, here: http://www.cleantrade.org/

Find out more about Global Witness, another NGO referenced in the interview, here: http://www.globalwitness.org

And for more information on 'Blood Oil' and Professor Wenar's work, follow him on Twitter @LeifWenar or visit his website: http://www.wenar.info/

The music used in this podcast is called Apollo1 by Olivier Girardot and it is licensed under Creative Commons.

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