Conceptual & Normative Issues

Books and Reports


·         Ackerman, Bruce, The Future of Liberal Revolution (Yale: Yale University Press, 1992)

·         Bass, Gary Jonathan, Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002)

·         Elster, Jon, Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)

·         Elster, Jon, ‘Moral Dilemmas of Transitional Justice’, in Practical Conflicts: New Philosophical Essays,  ed. by Peter Baumann & Monika Betzler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 279-294.

·         Govier, Trudy, Forgiveness and Revenge (London: Routledge, 2002)

·         Griswold, Charles L., Forgiveness: A Philosophical Exploration (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

·         Hayner, Priscilla, Unspeakable Truths: Facing the Challenges of Truth Commissions (London: Routledge, 2002)

·         Ignatieff, Michael, The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience (New York: Owl Books, 1997)

·         Kritz, Neil, Where We Are and How We Got Here: An Overview of Developments in the Search for Justice and Reconciliation’ in The Legacy of Abuse ed. by Alice H. Henkin  (New York: the Aspen Institute, 2002)

·         May, Larry, War Crimes and Just War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

·         Meredith, Martin, Coming to Terms: South Africa's Search for Truth (New York: Public Affairs, 1999)

·         Minow, Martha, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence (US:  Beacon Press, 1998)

·         Murphy, Jeffrie G., Getting Even: Forgiveness and its Limits (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)

·         Nino, Carlos Santiago. ‘Punishment as a Response to Human Rights Violation: A Global Perspective’, in Radical Evil on Trial (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), pp. 3-41

·         Philpott, Daniel, The Politics of Past Evil: Religion, Reconciliation, and the Dilemmas of Transitional Justice (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006)

·         Ratner, Steven R. and Jason S. Abrams, Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)

·         Rethinking the Rule of Law after Communism, ed. by Adam Czarnota, Martin Krygier and Wojciech Sadurski (Budapest, NY, Central European: University Press, 2005)

·         Teitel, Ruti, Transitional Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)

·         Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth versus Justice, ed. by Roht-Arriaza, Naomi, and Javier Mariezcurrena  (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

·         Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions, ed. by Robert I. Rothberg and Dennis Thompson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)

·         Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

Articles


·         Akhavan, Payam, ‘Are International Criminal Tribunals a Disincentive to Peace?: Reconciling Judicial Romanticism with Political Realism’, Human Rights Quarterly, 31.3 (2009), 624-654

·         Arthur, Paige, ‘How “Transitions” Reshaped Human Rights: A Conceptual History of Transitional Justice’, Human Rights Quarterly,  31.2 (2009), 321-367

·         Bell, Christine, ‘Transitional Justice, Interdisciplinarity and the State of the ‘Field’ or ‘Non-Field’,  International Journal of Transitional Justice, 3.1 (2009), 5-27

·         Fletcher, Laurel E., Harvey M. Weinstein and Jamie Rowen, ‘Context, Timing, and the Dynamics of Transitional Justice: A Historical Perspective’, Human Rights Quarterly, 31.1 (2009), 163-220

·         Eisikovits, Nir, ‘Transitional Justice’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2009)   

·         Glasius, Marlies, ‘What is Global Justice and who decides? Civil Society and Victim Responses to the International Criminal Court’s First Investigations’,  Human Rights Quarterly, 31.2 (2009), 496-520

·         Gready, Paul, ‘Reconceptualising Transitional Justice: Embedded and Distanced Justice’, Conflict, Security and Development, 5.1 (2005), 3-21

·         Kritz, Neil, ‘Accountability for International Crimes and Serious Violations of Human Rights: Coming to Terms with Atrocities: A Review of Accountability Mechanisms for Mass Violations of Human Rights’, Law and Contemporary Problems, 59.4  (1996), 127-152

·         Leebaw, Bronwyn Anne, ‘The Irreconcilable Goals of Transitional Justice’, Human Rights Quarterly, 30.1 (2008), 95-118

·         McEvoy, Kieran, ‘Letting Go of Legalism: Developing a ‘Thicker’ Version of Transitional Justice’, Journal of Law and Society, 34.4 (2007), 411-440

·         Mendez, Juan, ‘Accountability for Past Abuses’, Human Rights Quarterly, 19.2 (1997), 255-282

·         Orentlicher, Diane F., ‘Settling Accounts Revisited: Reconciling Global Norms and Local Agency’, International Journal of Transitional Justice, 1.1 (2007), 10-22

·         Orentlicher, Diane F., ‘Settling Accounts: The Duty to Prosecute Human Rights Violations of a Prior Regime’, Yale Law Journal, 100.8 (1991),  2537-2615

·         Peskin, Victor, ‘Beyond Victor's Justice? The Challenge of Prosecuting the Winners at the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda’, Journal of Human Rights, 4.2 (2005), 213-231

·         Teitel, Ruti, ‘Transitional Jurisprudence: The Role of Law in Political Transformation’, Yale Law Review, 106.7 (1997), 2009-2080

·         Teitel, Ruti, ‘Transitional Justice Genealogy’, Harvard Human Rights Journal, 16 (2003), 69–94

·         Teitel, Ruti, ‘Transitional Justice Globalized’, International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2.1 (2008), 1-4