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17 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: Transitional Justice and the Relationship between Scholarship and Activism
for thinking about transitional justice. In considering some of the affinities and differences of their own experiences compared to those of other societies confronting legacies of injustice discussed in the book, activists and intellectuals could be triggered by Teitel’s analysis without being constrained by it. At a time when many international actors were brining to the Balkans policy templates and prescriptions that seemed to depoliticize the issues and foreclose critical discussion, Transitional Justice appeared to be doing the opposite. It was opening up space for debate and deliberation. Since these...
15 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: Transitional Justice and Enduring Imagination
...epiphenomenal. In the process, she engages with insights and arguments from several disciplines and fields of law —from international law to constitutional theory, from political philosophy to historiography— not merely enriching the discussion, but rather demonstrating their importance for legal analysis, without sacrificing attention to legal detail. Repressive pasts and legal responses Teitel carefully identifies and explores a number of crucial legal mechanisms employed in transitional periods: criminal justice, historical justice, reparatory justice, administrative justice, and constitutional justice are each the focus of individual chapters. This analysis puts Teitel in...
11 May Symposium on ‘Marketing Global Justice’ – A Letter on Kafka, Coca-Cola, and Vergès
until you realise that you might not just be running out of academic-time but also life-time. What a rude awakening from the manic scramble from one deadline to another! We all have one final dead-line I guess, and I am extremely thankful that I have been granted an extension. But I am already starting to ramble. Thank you so much for your careful and thought-provoking engagements with Marketing Global Justice. Filip, thank you for agreeing to engage with my book in this symposium at short notice; I am so glad...
18 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: Law’s Liberation
“transitional justice.” He argues, the popular translation of transitional justice in traditional Chinese（轉型正義）, which is allegedly informed by Taiwanese scholars during the first decade of this century, is quite misleading. The term has often been misinterpreted as “deformation” or “mutation” of justice. Local commentators criticized the connotation of the term, for justice is universal, prospective, and generally applicable, rather than constructive, in-between, and context-dependent. In their words, transitional justice is a political excuse of the successor regime to persecute people on the other side of political spectrum. “Transitional injustice” was...09 Jun Guest Post: International Criminal Justice and Reconciliation: Beyond the Retributive vs. Restorative Divide (Part 2 of 2)
[ Carsten Stahn is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice and Programme Director of the Grotius Centre for International Studies.This two-part post is based on a talk given at the seminar on Reconciliation v. Accountability: Balancing Interests of Peace and Justice, organized by the Centre for International Law Research and Policy on 29 May 2015 at the Peace Palace. Part 1 can be found here.] 2. International Criminal Justice and Reconciliation: Improving Connections It is easy to criticize international criminal justice for its shortcomings. A hard question is:...
02 Oct Distant Justice Symposium: Distancing Justice from the ICC Will Actually Build It
[Ottilia Anna Maunganidze is the head of special projects at the Institute for Security Studies . She is a lawyer, analyst and strategist with particular interests in international law, human rights and justice. This is the latest post in our symposium on Phil Clark’s book, Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics.] The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established as a court of last resort for serious, mass atrocity crimes. As an institution, the ICC, was thus conceptualized as one that should serve to counteract...
01 Nov Conversation on WAR
just written a book with the title ‘war’ and what that means. So you refer to the book by McNair & Watts who wrote in 1966 that the term war was out of fashion in international law. It seems that in some other disciplines the term might be coming back, and you know that I took part in a podcast discussion with Professor Jolle Demmers from Conflict Studies at Utrecht University who was advocating that the term war should come back. I’m wondering, do you think your book might be...
09 May Symposium on ‘Marketing Global Justice’ – Review by Asad Kiyani
international law by distracting from structural inequality, with the marketing of global justice selling a misleading vision of it. Effectively she claims that the marketing of global justice packages the visceral and spectacularized suffering of primarily Black and Brown bodies for the institutional and political preferences and benefits of primarily White and Northern actors, without attending to the roles of the latter in producing the former [18]. Marketization of global justice enables this conceptual bifurcation by detaching the structural production of violence – through, inter alia, the supply of arms,...06 May Jus Post Bellum Symposium: Contrasting Transitional Justice and Jus Post Bellum
goals, and future of each term. The most useful definition of Transitional Justice In Transitional Justice Genealogy, Ruti Teitel defines Transitional Justice “as the conception of justice associated with periods of political change, characterized by legal responses to confront the wrongdoings of repressive predecessor regimes.” This is, of course, not the only definition of Transitional Justice, but I think it is one of the best. Subsequent definitions tend towards vagueness. The UN defines Transitional Justice as “the full range of processes and mechanisms associated with a society’s attempts to come...03 Nov Don’t Forget the Black-and-White Jumpsuit with the Words “Convict” on It
...to doing? "Can we, as civilized nations, really afford to sacrifice justice to expediency?" No. But can we, as relatively civilized peoples and nations really afford to sacrifice both justice and expediency on the altar of the accused's right to defend themselves, like what happened with the Milosevic trial? And if forced to chose, which one harms justice the less? That is the dilemma, and it is not one for us to find a concrete answer to, but at some point, we have to make a values call, and bluntly...