Transitional justice / edited by Melissa S. Williams, Rosemary Nagy and Jon Elster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagy, Rosemary, Author.

American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Meeting (2005 : Washington, D.C.)

Contributor:

Williams, Melissa.

Nagy, Rosemary.

Elster, Jon, 1940-

American Political Science Association. Meeting (2005 : Washington, D.C.)

Series:

Nomos ; 51.

Nomos ; 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transitional justice.

Reparation (Criminal justice).

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : NYU Press, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Criminal tribunals, truth commissions, reparations, apologies and memorializations are the characteristic instruments in the transitional justice toolkit that can help societies transition from authoritarianism to democracy, from civil war to peace, and from state-sponsored extra-legal violence to a rights-respecting rule of law. Over the last several decades, their growing use has established transitional justice as a body of both theory and practice whose guiding norms and structures encompasses the range of institutional mechanisms by which societies address the wrongs committed by past regimes in order to lay the foundation for more legitimate political and legal order.In Transitional Justice, a group of leading scholars in philosophy, law, and political science settles some of the key theoretical debates over the meaning of transitional justice while opening up new ones. By engaging both theorists and empirical social scientists in debates over central categories of analysis in the study of transitional justice, it also illuminates the challenges of making strong empirical claims about the impact of transitional institutions. Contributors: Gary J. Bass, David Cohen, David Dyzenhaus, Pablo de Greiff, Leigh-Ashley Lipscomb, Monika Nalepa, Eric A. Posner, Debra Satz, Gopal Sreenivasan, Adrian Vermeule, and Jeremy Webber.

Contents:

Theorizing transitional justice / Pablo de Greiff

Justice, truth, peace / Jon Elster

Forms of transitional justice / Jeremy Webber

Countering the wrongs of the past : the role of compensation / Debra Satz

Reparations as rough justice / Adrian Vermeule

Reparations as a noble lie / Gary J. Bass

Leviathan as a theory of transitional justice / David Dyzenhaus

Transitional prudence : a comment on David Dyzenhaus, Leviathan as a theory of transitional justice / Eric A. Posner

What is non-ideal theory? / Gopal Sreenivasan

When more may be less : transitional justice in East Timor / David Cohen and Leigh-Ashley Lipscomb

Reconciliation, refugee returns, and the impact of international criminal justice : the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina / Monika Nalepa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814704974

0814704972

9780814725276

0814725279

OCLC:

794663354