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Transitional Justice Tag

08 Dec

[Antonia Mulvey is a British lawyer, and the founder and executive director of Legal Action Worldwide. She has also served as a UN investigator on the Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar and advised UN agencies and governments on sexual and gender-based violence and access to justice.  Terry Flyte is an international lawyer and programme lead at Legal Action Worldwide. He works at...

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08 Dec

[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...

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03 Nov

[Dr Jeremie M. Bracka is an international human rights law scholar and transitional justice expert at RMIT University’s School of Law (Melbourne). He previously worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and is the author of Transitional Justice for Israel/Palestine? (Springer, 2022)] The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is witnessing a striking rise in genocide litigation, as global armed conflicts...

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07 Oct

[Thomas Obel Hansen is a senior lecturer in law and member of the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) at Ulster University (UK). He is currently writing the book, Judging the Powerful in Global Accountability Regimes (forthcoming Routledge).] Building on arguments developed for a research article soon coming up with University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, this post explains why the dominant...

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11 Aug

[Temelso Gashaw is a human rights lawyer who has previously served as a senior human rights officer at the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC)] Ethiopia, an East African nation marked by tumultuous history of violent conflict, is currently at a critical juncture in its attempt to embark on a journey of confronting its violent past, ending ongoing injustices, and fostering reconciliation...

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07 Aug

[Gaiane Nuridzhanian is an associate professor at The Arctic University of Norway (UiT)] The legal principle of ne bis in idem proclaims that no one shall be tried twice for the same matter. This principle finds expression in a variety of ne bis in idem rules that define the specific parameters of the prohibition on repeat trial. While the ne bis...

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07 Aug

[Nandor Knust is an associate professor of law at the Arctic University of Norway (UiT)] Gaiane Nuridzhanian’s The Principle of Ne Bis in Idem in International Criminal Law offers a comprehensive examination of the ne bis in idem principle in the realm of international criminal law. Drawing from her extensive academic and professional background, Nuridzhanian provides an in-depth analysis of how this...

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05 Aug

[Gaiane Nuridzhanian is an associate professor at The Arctic University of Norway (UiT)] The legal principle of ne bis in idem, also known as double jeopardy, proclaims that no person shall be tried twice for the same matter. This principle exists in most of the domestic legal systems and is a fundamental human right. While the importance of this principle is...

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28 Jul

[Benoit Meystre is a Swiss lawyer and legal advisor at the International Investigations and Litigation Program of TRIAL International.] TRIAL International filed a criminal complaint against Ousman Sonko in 2017. The organisation supported nine plaintiffs who traveled to Switzerland in January 2024 to be heard by the court. It also ensured the regular publication of summaries of the hearings throughout the trial and advocated for the proceedings to...

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10 Oct

[Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne is an Assistant Professor Conflict Resolution and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin] Introduction At this time of ongoing ‘scholasticide’ against our colleagues in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the destruction of all 12 universities, the murder of thousands of university staff and students, and with restrictions placed on access to campuses across the West Bank, the need to speak up...

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21 Nov

[Lior Weinstein is a fourth-year student of Law and Hebrew literature (LLB and BA) and an LLM student in international law from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and part of its international law forum.] In this blog post, I will present a new development in Israeli case law – the recognition of transitional justice (TJ) in the property law context. This exciting development...

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01 Oct

[Brigitte Herremans is a Researcher at Justice Visions, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University. Habib Nassar is Director of Policy and Research at Impunity Watch.] The Syrian conflict has underscored some of the main deficiencies of the international justice system. The multifaceted and protracted conflict, paired with the political stalemate over its resolution have relegated the quest for justice to the background....

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