Debating Local Justice in Rwanda: The Gacaca Courts and Post-Genocide Accountability

On Thursday October 7th the London Transitional Justice Network held a lively panel discussion with Phil Clark (SOAS),  Jens Meierhenrich (Harvard University) & Lars Waldorf (Centre for Applied Human Rights, York University).

The Gacaca Courts, Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda by Phil Clark is available here.

Localizing Transitional Justice:  Interventions and Priorities after Mass Violence edited by Rosalind Shaw, Lars Waldorf with Pierre Hazan is available here.

The Legacies of Law: Long-run Consequence of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652-2000 by Jens Meierhenrich is available here.

Launch of the London Transitional Justice Network

The launch of the London Transitional Justice Network was held on Monday 10th May 2010.  The speakers Natasa Kandic, Ruti Teitel and David Tolbert spoke on the topic "Transitional Justice in the 21st Century".

The podcast of the event is available here

A video of the event is available here

On the Law of Peace: The implications for transitional justice

On Friday 12th March 2010, Professor Christine Bell, Associate Director, Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster gave a seminar to the LTJN titled "On the law of peace: the implications for transitional justice".  Professor Bell's article "Transitional justice, interdisciplinarity and and the state of the 'field' or 'non-field'" is available online.

Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Amnesties:  A New Legal and Policy Perspective

On November 24th, 2010, Mark Freeman, Director of External Affairs of the International Crisis Group, and former Director of International Affairs of the International Center for Transitional Justice gave a successful seminar on "Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Amnesties:  A New Legal and Policy Perspective". 

Mark Freeman's book Necessary Evils: Amnesties and the Search for Justice is available from Cambridge University Press and an excerpt from the book "Opening Considerations: On the Perennial Relevance of Amnesties" is also available.

Transitions and Justice in the United States: Reckoning With Torture

On July 9th, 2009, Professor David Cole, Georgetown Law Center, and Director of the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies, spoke to the LTJN on “Transitions and Justice in the United States: Reckoning With Torture”. 

Professor Cole has published widely on issues of Civil Liberties, Torture, and the War on Terror. One of his more recent discussions of the problem of accountability for torture, was published in January 2009 in the New York Review of Books.   He has also written for the New York Review of Books on "The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers".