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Transitional Justice Tag

26 Aug

[Mark A. Drumbl is Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director of Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University. Kirsten J. Fisher is an Associate Professor with the Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan.] These five commentaries are so much more than interlocutions or interventions. Indeed, they feel like expansions of the community of the book itself, as if...

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26 Aug

[Saheli Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, India.] Mark Drumbl and Kirsten Fisher's Reframing Transitional Justice bears a striking resemblance to the animating image from Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory, a work that distorts the visible surface, warping the underlying reality without fully obscuring it. This is an apt representation of the...

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25 Aug

[María Estrada-Fuentes is a lecturer in socially engaged performance at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. Her forthcoming monograph is titled Applied Theatre Colombia: Embodying Transitional Justice (Methuen Drama, 2027).] In his Theses on the Philosophy of History, Walter Benjamin engages in a series of reflections around the past and ideas of the past. Throughout various...

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24 Aug

[Julia Emtseva is an Assistant Professor of Law at HEC Paris and co-founder and convener of the ESIL Interest Group on Critical Approaches to International Law.] A quiet pattern runs through the third part of Reframing Transitional Justice – Refractions: Gender, Race, Authoritarianism – that I had the honor to comment on, where the authors ask how transitional justice (TJ) refracts...

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24 Aug

[Ligeia Quackelbeen is an Assistant Professor of (European and international) criminal law at Tilburg University and Principal Investigator of the project, Conversations with Judges (2023-2028).] This summer, when I was invited to author a commentary on the provocative volume Reframing Transitional Justice, edited by Mark A. Drumbl and Kirsten J. Fisher, I found myself immersed in another book. Such are often the...

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24 Aug

[Mark A. Drumbl is Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University. Kirsten J. Fisher is an Associate Professor with the Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan.] We are delighted that Opinio Juris is hosting a symposium on our edited collection Reframing Transitional Justice: Innovations, Boundaries, and Refractions (Routledge, 2026). We...

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07 Apr

[Nataly Santana Sánchez is a doctoral candidate at the University of Essex. Her research focuses on reproductive violence and transitional justice. Prior to joining the University of Essex, she worked advising the Ministry of Women of the Dominican Republic on the implementation of international human rights law into domestic laws and policies.] Throughout history, forced sterilisation has been a weapon of...

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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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