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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...
08 Dec Collective Efforts Essential for Justice in Syria
[ Alice Autin is international justice researcher at Human Rights Watch. Jörn Oliver Eiermann served as senior international justice counsel at Human Rights Watch from September to November 2025.] The December 2024 fall of the Bashar al-Assad government marks a historic turning point for Syria, and after decades of atrocities, potentially for justice. Despite extensive information and evidence of serious crimes, the Assad government denied its responsibility, and with the support of its international allies, largely evaded accountability. In the face of numerous obstacles to advancing justice for crimes committed,...
07 Aug Symposium on The Principle of ne bis in idem in International Criminal Law: The Role of ne bis in idem in Transitional Justice – A Multi-level Approach to Justice, Truth, and Reconciliation
...the same offense. However, in transitional justice contexts — such as societies emerging from armed conflict or authoritarian rule — a rigid application of this principle might obstruct efforts to achieve accountability, truth, and reconciliation. In these settings, initial legal proceedings may have been marred by partiality, coercion, or systemic injustice. Revisiting past injustices is linked to uncover new information to deliver justice, which can potentially clash with the ne bis in idem norm. The question arises here how transitional justice processes can accommodate the principle while still achieving their broader objectives....
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...
05 Jun No Justice, No Peace: The United States of America Needs Transitional Justice
America’s Northern neighbor is just one example. Whether in times of armed conflict or civil unrest or peace, States are responsible for responding to human rights violations and transitional justice is fundamentally about how a society deals with past injustices. As a field of study, transitional justice scholarship emphasizes the importance of context, rights-based approaches, and participation. Moreover, transitional justice is a valuable lens through which to view the connections between the varied responses, rather than just seeing them as isolated processes. What could a transitional justice process, based on...17 Oct How to Write a Book in 647 Easy Steps (Part Two)
In Part One of this series, I discussed how to decide whether to write a book and offered some thoughts about book contracts. In this post, I want to discuss the calling card that every potential book author needs to obtain a contract — a good proposal. Bill Schabas can submit a one sentence proposal that says “I want to write a book about X” and publishers will offer him a contract. The rest of us, particularly junior scholars who don’t have a book or dissertation under their belt, have...
10 Aug Symposium on Prosecuting Asia-Pacific Crimes: Introduction – Asia-Pacific International Crimes in Domestic Courts
...Crimes: Examining the Utility of Universal Jurisdiction Efforts to Address Forced Displacement in Myanmar Symposium on Prosecuting Asia-Pacific Crimes: Choosing Justice – Forum selection in Universal Jurisdiction cases Symposium on Prosecuting Asia-Pacific Crimes: Crimes Against Humanity Convention and the Obligation to Prevent Symposium on Prosecuting Asia-Pacific Crimes: Universal Jurisdiction Under the Future Crimes Against Humanity Convention Symposium on Prosecuting Asia-Pacific Crimes: A Jacket, a Hearing, a Filing, and an Acquittal – What Justice Actually Looks Like Symposium on Prosecuting Asia-Pacific Crimes: Beyond Borders – From Local Truth to Global Justice...
16 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: Tracing the Experience of Brazilian Transitional Justice and Its Discontents
[Tatiana Waisberg is an international Law lecturer, researcher and author of books and articles focusing on International Law, Transitional Justice, Latin America Studies, Terrorism and Human Rights, and a ZviMeitar Center for Legal Advanced Studies Research Fellow (20050-8).] This symposium offers an excellent opportunity to reflect on the transitional justice phenomenology over the two decades that followed the launch of Transitional Justice by Professor Ruti Teitel. The book unveiled a groundbreaking insight into a very distinctive concept of justice associated with extraordinary and radical legal and political shifts towards democratization....