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17 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: Transitional Justice 2.0–Rebooting Justice in the 21st Century
[Arnaud Kurze is an Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University.] Introduction “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have,” James Baldwin wrote in No Name in the Street over half a century ago, describing his childhood memories in Harlem and events that painstakingly scarred his memory, including Martin Luther King and Malcolm X’s deaths (Baldwin 1972, 149). The question of delivering justice is still at the heart of contemporary social unrest not only in the United...
09 Aug Setting the Right Precedent: Victim-Centred Justice in Afghanistan
...bottom-up approaches to address victims’ grievances. In the past few years, the Afghan civil society has adopted the language of “victim-centred justice” to avoid the negative connotations associated with the term “transitional justice” and move beyond the “peace v justice” narrative. The terms “victim-centred justice” allow for a broader interpretation of “justice” to include criminal justice and other mechanisms. Giving justice a broad definition is particularly important in a context such as Afghanistan where victimhood is highly complex. Afghans have been victimised under different regimes and suffered from a wide...
01 Oct Distant Justice Symposium: Phil Clark’s ‘Distant Justice’–A Wake-Up Call for the International Criminal Court or a Case for Managing Expectations?
[Owiso Owiso is a Doctoral Researcher in Public International Law at the University of Luxembourg. 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 .] A distant ICC ‘orbiting in space’ as rogue regimes make merry This post makes a few observations on Phil Clark’s book Distant justice: The impact of the International Criminal Court on African politics. Clark provides compelling insight into the political intrigues of the so-called ‘self-referrals’ by the Democratic Republic of...
08 Jul Symposium on Art, Aesthetics and International Justice: Primed for Unity and Complexity – International Justice Through Aesthetic Lens
[SONG Tianying is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law Research and Policy] Confucius said: “One establishes oneself through rites and perfects oneself through music.” (The Analects · Book VIII: Tai Bo) International justice is established in terms of rites; Marina Aksenova’s Art, Aesthetics and International Justice seeks to improve it with aesthetic insights. It is a highly innovative approach which coincides with ancient Chinese wisdom. While the book discusses a wide range of international justice issues, this post focuses on its premium example: international criminal justice. I...
27 Jan The Long – Yet Still Uneven – Arc of International Justice
violence has been fueled at least in part by the persistent impunity gap, with recent atrocities allegedly committed by many of the same actors implicated in past abuses. To be sure, victims’ access to justice also depends on capacity within the international justice system. There are more grave crimes than the system can address. But the mobilization around Ukraine demonstrates that where there is a will, there is a way. The absence of similar responses to other situations not only deprives victims of access to justice, but also threatens its...
08 May Symposium on ‘Marketing Global Justice’ – Monopoly Capitalism, Kitsch, and Accountable Accountability
[Mark A. Drumbl is Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University.] Dear Christine, I really liked engaging with your fabulous book, Marketing Global Justice. It’s cleverly edgy and full of insights. You unwind international criminal justice as a transnational business venture. As with all commodity trading and product hawking, well, advertising is indeed key. I was reading your book at the same time as The Tender Barbarian, Bohumil Hrabal’s eulogy to his friend Vladimír. Those guys spent a lot of time...
22 Aug Symposium on Informers Up Close: Out of the Grey – The Limitations of Transitional Justice
communist-style political violence – structures that are nothing, if not intimidatingly grey. Never before have I seen an academic book engaging with greyness so vividly. Embracing greyness extends to the authors’ scepticism toward transitional justice. Early on in the book, the authors reveal one of their core concerns with regard to transitional justice – the lack of the emotional quotient (EQ): …transitional justice would do well to recognize the full panoply of diverse emotional motivations of informers and their handlers in all of their hues. Such recognition would augment the...
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...