Socio-Legal Studies - International Law & Politics

Analysing the human rights trials in Argentina established to prosecute those responsible for human rights violations during the military dictatorship, this book addresses how and why domestic prosecutions can contribute to repairing the damage caused by mass atrocities...

This book – the first to appear on this topic – is a radical exploration of a category that has emerged from recent emergency planning documents released by the US security state: the Universal Adversary. The Universal Adversary – an abstract enemy – first emerged in security documents, but has sinc..

This book sets out and applies a definition of transformative justice as expanding upon, and providing an alternative to, transitional justice. Focusing on a comparative study of social movements, nongovernmental organisations and trade unions working on land and housing rights in South Africa...

Two decades after the wars, societies in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia – albeit to different degrees – are still facing the legacies of the wars of the 1990s on a daily basis. Reconciliation between and within these societies remains a formidable challenge, given that all three countries are still faci..

Two decades after the wars, societies in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia – albeit to different degrees – are still facing the legacies of the wars of the 1990s on a daily basis. Reconciliation between and within these societies remains a formidable challenge, given that all three countries are still faci..

This book presents a varied and critical picture of how the Arab Spring demands a re-examination and re-conceptualization of issues of transitional justice. It demonstrates how unique features of this wave of revolutions and popular protests that have swept the Arab world since December 2010 give ri..

Taking Northern Ireland as its primary case study, this book applies the growing literature in memory studies to the primary question of transitional justice: How shall societies and individuals reckon with a traumatic past? This book analyses how the bodies of the dead, injured, and traumatised are..

This book addresses current developments in transitional justice in Latin America – effectively the first region to undergo concentrated transitional justice experiences in modern times, Using a comparative approach, it examines trajectories in truth, justice, reparations and amnesties in countries ..

Transitional Justice Theories is the first volume to approach the politically sensitive subject of post-conflict or post-authoritarian justice from a theoretical perspective. It combines contributions from distinguished scholars and practitioners as well as from emerging academics from different dis..

Truth, Denial and Transition addresses the ways in which the process of truth recovery in post-conflict societies is challenged and contested...

This book examines the role of victims within the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Drawing on a series of interviews with key figures, the book explores the way in which all parties within it are shaped by specific political, economic and legal contexts; notably, whether victims can..

The field of transitional justice has expanded rapidly since the term first emerged in the late 1990s. Its intellectual development has, however, tended to follow practice rather than drive it. Addressing this gap, Violence, Law and the Impossibility of Transitional Justice pursues a comprehensive t..