Transitional Justice and the Public Sphere

Chrisje Brants is Professor of Criminal Law at Northumbria University, United Kingdom; and Professor Emeritus of Criminal Law and Procedure at Utrecht University, Netherlands.Susanne Karstedt is Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, Australia.

... the multitude of perspectives and experiences that scholars and practitioners brought to this book make is outstanding. Legal scholars of criminal law and procedure, criminologists, political scientists, anthropologists, victimologists, communications specialists – they all add to this book their unique perspectives, emphasising once again that transitional justice is an interdisciplinary field.

• 1. Introduction: The Rational and the Emotional: Issues of Transparency and Legitimacy in Transitional Justice Chrisje Brants and Susanne KarstedtPart I: Transitional Justice and its Public Spheres: Principles of Justice2. Justice as the Art of Muddling through: The Importance of Nyaya in the Aftermath of International Crimes Antony Pemberton and Rianne Letschert3. Emotional Discourse in a Rational Public Sphere: The Victim and the International Criminal Trial Chrisje Brants4. Credible Justice and Incredible CrimesSusanne Karstedt5. Globalisation, Crime and Governance: Transparency, Accountability and Participation as Principles for Global Criminal Law Paul De HertPart II: Justice Seen to Be Done: Courts and the Public6. International Judicial Institutions: (Re)Defining ‘Public’ Proceedings? Olga Kavran7. The Contestation of Complementarity in Uganda: The Case of Thomas Kwoyelo Lauren Gould8. Discursive Proceedings and the Transitional Trial: A View from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Cheryl White9. Unmet Expectations and the Legitimacy of Transitional Justice Institutions: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of CambodiaRay NicksonPart III: Beyond the Courts: Creating Public Spheres of Testimony10. Witness Testimony and the Incommensurability of Truth in ArgentinaAntonius CGM Robben11. Faces of Truth: Journalism, Justice and War Kees Brants and Chrisje Brants12. Memory Laws: Regulating Memory and the Policing of Acknowledgement and Denial Marloes van Noorloos13. Challenges to the Movement to Exhume the Missing Victims of the Spanish Civil War and Francoist Dictatorship Natalia Maystorovich Chulio14. Portraits of the Dead and the Living: Bosnia and Rwanda 20 Years on Olivera Simic