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.