Transitional Justice : : NOMOS LI / / Rosemary Nagy; ed. by Melissa S. Williams, Jon Elster.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Nagy, Rosemary,
• MitwirkendeR: Bass, Gary J.,; Cohen, David,; Dyzenhaus, David,; Elster, Jon,; Lipscomb, Leigh-Ashley,; Nagy, Rosemary,; Nalepa, Monika,; Posner, Eric A.,; Satz, Debra,; Sreenivasan, Gopal,; Vermeule, Adrian,; Webber, Jeremy,; Williams, Melissa S.,; de Greiff, Pablo,
• HerausgeberIn: Elster, Jon,; Williams, Melissa S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy ; 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Theorizing Transitional Justice -- 2. Justice, Truth, Peace -- 3. Forms of Transitional Justice -- 4. Countering the Wrongs of the Past: The Role of Compensation -- 5. Reparations as Rough Justice -- 6. Reparations as a Noble Lie -- 7. Leviathan as a Theory of Transitional Justice -- 8. Transitional Prudence: A Comment on David Dyzenhaus, “Leviathan as a Theory of Transitional Justice” -- 9. What Is Non-Ideal Theory? -- 10. When More May Be Less: Transitional Justice in East Timor -- 11. Reconciliation, Refugee Returns, and the Impact of International Criminal Justice: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Index