BOOK: Marcos ZUNINO, Justice Framed : A Genealogy of Transitional Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). ISBN 9781108475259, £ 85.00

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Cambridge University Press has published a book dealing with the history of transitional justice.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Why are certain responses to past human rights violations considered instances of transitional justice while others are disregarded? This study interrogates the history of the discourse and practice of the field to answer that question. Zunino argues that a number of characteristics inherited as transitional justice emerged as a discourse in the 1980s and 1990s have shaped which practices of the present and the past are now regarded as valid responses to past human rights violations. He traces these influential characteristics from Argentina's transition to democracy in 1983, the end of communism in Eastern Europe, the development of international criminal justice, and the South African truth commission of 1995. Through an analysis of the post-World War II period, the decolonisation process and the Cold War, Zunino identifies a series of episodes and mechanisms omitted from the history of transitional justice because they did not conform to its accepted characteristics.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marcos Zunino, British Institute of International and Comparative Law

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction

Part I. History:

2. The discourse of transitional justice: objects, concepts, actors and characteristics

3. The birth of transitional justice: emergence

Part II. Prehistory:

4. The myth of Nuremberg: origin

5. The Cold War impasse: descent

6. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

More information here

(source: ESCLH Blog)

BOOK: Colleen MURPHY, The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge: CUP, 2017, ISBN 9781107085473, 228 p., 75 GBP)

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Colleen Murphy (University Colleg of Illinois) published The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice with Cambridge University Press.

Book description:

Many countries have attempted to transition to democracy following conflict or repression, but the basic meaning of transitional justice remains hotly contested. In this book, Colleen Murphy analyses transitional justice - showing how it is distinguished from retributive, corrective, and distributive justice - and outlines the ethical standards which societies attempting to democratize should follow. She argues that transitional justice involves the just pursuit of societal transformation. Such transformation requires political reconciliation, which in turn has a complex set of institutional and interpersonal requirements including the rule of law. She shows how societal transformation is also influenced by the moral claims of victims and the demands of perpetrators, and how justice processes can fail to be just by failing to foster this transformation or by not treating victims and perpetrators fairly. Her book will be accessible and enlightening for philosophers, political and social scientists, policy analysts, and legal and human rights scholars and activists.

On the author:

Colleen Murphy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Source: International Law Reporter. More information with CUP (inter alia free excerpt).