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15 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: Giving Politics Its Due–Late Reflections on Ruti Teitel’s Transitional Justice
publication of Transitional Justice 20 years ago, the field of transitional justice has moved in a different direction, however. As the field became increasingly institutionalised and mainstreamed, a narrowly normative, legalistic and apolitical – even anti-political – understanding of transitional justice emerged as the dominant model of transitional justice (widely adopted not only by scholars and IGOs, such as the UN and the EU, but also by influential NGOs such as the International Centre for Transitional Justice). Several developments have contributed to this ‘normative turn in transitional justice’. At the...
27 May Affective Justice Symposium: Reflecting on Affective Justice
[Edwin Bikundo is a Senior Lecturer at the Griffith University Law School, Gold Coast, Australia with teaching and research interests in public international law and legal theory.] Affective Justice, the new book by noted international criminal justice expert Kamari Maxine Clark is a deep, broad and profound study, mediation on and explication of the International Criminal Court’s engagement with Africa and it’s diaspora – broadly speaking – and likewise the engagement of Africa with the International Criminal Court (the ICC). It does this intriguingly by examining and explaining how ‘justice...
29 May Affective Justice Symposium: Other Geographies, Other Pushbacks–Affective Justice as a Diagnosis for International Criminal Law
...withdrawals, and countercampaigns – as we can see with these examples from the situation in Afghanistan, where Trump’s personal lawyer relied upon a concerted social media campaign to fund his NGO team’s trip to The Hague. The analytic potential of Affective Justice can be extended out beyond the ‘Pan-Africanist pushback’ that serves as the focus of her book. While Pompeo’s and Sekulow’s expressions register quite different responses than the African resistance and reattribution that Clarke traces, which her book links to broader colonial and postcolonial histories of violence, the affective...
11 Aug Doing Justice to History Symposium: Towards Asking Better Questions within the Field of International Criminal Justice
practices of international criminal justice processes to advance their strategic agendas; and second, a critical perspective concerned with contextualising the historical narratives constructed within international criminal judgments and viewing them in more humble terms as moments of discursive beginning rather than instances of historical closure. Reflections on the Symposium Turning to the contributions to this symposium, I am grateful that each of the contributors has focused on different themes within the book. In this section, my aim is less to offer a response than to continue the conversation by offering...
29 Mar Symposium on Early Career International Law Academia: The Art of Writing an International Law Book Proposal – Personal Reflections, Tips and Examples
drafting the proposal and how did you address them? Barrie . I think the major challenge for me was producing a proposal that was framed to ‘market’ the book. In a way, the book proposal is a sales pitch, in which you need to make clear the market need for your book, including the target audiences that will be interested in it. Rebecca. Same here. There was something about ‘selling’ the book that felt almost distasteful initially. Beliefs still circulate about academia being somehow outside of capitalism, and it was...06 Dec Regionalization as a Blessing or as a Curse? The EU and International Criminal Justice
Framework on Support to Transitional Justice. The EU Policy Framework marks some progress in the sense that it helps to draw greater attention to transitional justice concerns in EU policies. But it remains to some extent entrenched in mainstream discourse and clichés. Critics have argued that the approach towards global justice may reduce alternative conceptions of justice, or entrench pre-existing inequalities and thus deliver less justice. There is often a “Damned if you, damned if you don’t” dilemma. Whatever ever choice is taken, is likely to have some negative repercussions....
27 May Affective Justice Symposium: Affected Justice–Using Criminal Justice as a Political Tool
NGO-led movement of anti-impunity” has “through particular emotional regimes” propelled a conception that aligns with “neoliberal forms of economic and political governance.” Kamari’s concern is different from mine. Her concern is directed at conceptions of justice which exclude different forms of justice. My own concern about narratives is not so much about a narrowing or a broadening of concept of justice. Rather it is about the unequal application of the very narrow conception of justice propagated by the system (and conception of justice that I can well embrace). The well-connected...01 Oct How to Write a Book in 674 Easy Steps (Part One)
invariably focused on individual trials (particularly Farben and the Medical case). So I decided to write the book myself. How Do I Get a Book Contract? Okay, you’ve decided to write a book. And you have a fantastic idea for one. What then? How does a young scholar get a book contract? Here American academics are at a significant disadvantage. I think a very high percentage of non-American academics publish their dissertations as their first books. They may significantly rewrite their dissertation, but having 80-100,000 words on a single topic...
30 Mar Justice in Extreme Cases Symposium: ‘One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy’–On the Liberating Potential of Robinson’s Coherentist Approach to International Criminal Justice
he recognized the inherent and unavoidable dilemmas of the field. He showed us that international criminal justice involves many problems where any possible position is ‘inevitably flawed according to the aspirations of one or both sides of a dyad’. In his new book, he takes us the full way. Like Camus, he invites us to be aware of the contradictions, absurdities or frustrations of in the quest for justice, but not to ‘give up’. His deconstruction of ‘classical foundationalist’ models of justice is an act of liberation, which provides new...