Historical Justice In International Perspective

Author : Manfred Berg,Bernd Schaefer,Bernd Schäfer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521876834

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Historical Justice in International Perspective by Manfred Berg,Bernd Schaefer,Bernd Schäfer Pdf

This book makes a valuable contribution to debates on redress for historical injustices by offering case studies from nine countries on five continents. The contributors examine the problems of material restitution, criminal justice, apologies, recognition, memory and reconciliation in national contexts as well as from a comparative perspective. Among the topics discussed are the claims for reparations for slavery in the United States, West German restitution for the Holocaust, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the efforts to prosecute the perpetrators of the Khmer Rouge's mass murders in Cambodia and the struggles of the indigenous people of Australia and New Zealand. The book highlights the diversity of the ways societies have tried to right past wrongs as the demand for historical justice has become universal.

Author : J. H. W. Verzijl
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Law
ISBN : 9028602232

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International Law in Historical Perspective by J. H. W. Verzijl Pdf

Author : Felice Batlan,Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030802714

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Histories of Legal Aid by Felice Batlan,Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen Pdf

This book focuses on the history of the provision of legal aid and legal assistance to the poor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in eight different countries. It is the first such book to bring together historical work on legal aid in a comparative perspective, and allows readers to analogise and contrast historical narratives about free legal aid across countries. Legal aid developed as a result of industrialisation, urbanization, immigration, the rise of philanthropy, and what were viewed as new legal problems. Closely related, was the growing professionalisation of lawyers and the question of what duties lawyers owed society to perform free work. Yet, legal aid providers in many countries included lay women and men, leading at times to tensions with the bar. Furthermore, legal aid often became deeply politicized, creating dramatic conflicts concerning the rights of the poor to have equal access to justice.

Author : Matilda Keynes,Henrik Åström Elmersjö,Daniel Lindmark,Björn Norlin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030704124

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Historical Justice and History Education by Matilda Keynes,Henrik Åström Elmersjö,Daniel Lindmark,Björn Norlin Pdf

This book explores how the expectations of historical justice movements and processes are understood within educational contexts, particularly history education. In recent years, movements for historical justice have gained global momentum and prominence as the focus on righting wrongs from the past has become a feature of contemporary politics. This imperative has manifested in globally diverse contexts including societies emerging from recent, violent conflict, but also established democracies which are increasingly compelled to address the legacies of colonialism, slavery, genocides, and war crimes, as well as other forms of protracted discord. This book examines historical justice from an educational perspective, exploring the myriad ways that education is understood as a site of historical injustice, as well as a mechanism for redress. The editors and contributors analyse the role of history education in processes of historical justice broadly, exploring educational sites, policies, media, and materials. This edited collection is a unique and important touchstone volume for scholars, policy-makers, practitioners, and teachers that can guide future research, policy, and practice in the fields of historical justice, human rights and history education.

Author : Matilda Keynes,Henrik Åström Elmersjö,Daniel Lindmark,Björn Norlin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 3030704114

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Historical Justice and History Education by Matilda Keynes,Henrik Åström Elmersjö,Daniel Lindmark,Björn Norlin Pdf

This book explores how the expectations of historical justice movements and processes are understood within educational contexts, particularly history education. In recent years, movements for historical justice have gained global momentum and prominence as the focus on righting wrongs from the past has become a feature of contemporary politics. This imperative has manifested in globally diverse contexts including societies emerging from recent, violent conflict, but also established democracies which are increasingly compelled to address the legacies of colonialism, slavery, genocides, and war crimes, as well as other forms of protracted discord. This book examines historical justice from an educational perspective, exploring the myriad ways that education is understood as a site of historical injustice, as well as a mechanism for redress. The editors and contributors analyse the role of history education in processes of historical justice broadly, exploring educational sites, policies, media, and materials. This edited collection is a unique and important touchstone volume for scholars, policy-makers, practitioners, and teachers that can guide future research, policy, and practice in the fields of historical justice, human rights and history education.

Author : Eric A. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:312065885

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Quantification and Criminal Justice History in International Perspective by Eric A. Johnson Pdf

Author : James R. Maxeiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139504898

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Failures of American Civil Justice in International Perspective by James R. Maxeiner Pdf

Civil justice in the United States is neither civil nor just. Instead it embodies a maxim that the American legal system is a paragon of legal process which assures its citizens a fair and equal treatment under the law. Long have critics recognized the system's failings while offering abundant criticism but few solutions. This book provides a comparative-critical introduction to civil justice systems in the United States, Germany and Korea. It shows the shortcomings of the American system and compares them with German and Korean successes in implementing the rule of law. The author argues that these shortcomings could easily be fixed if the American legal systems were open to seeing how other legal systems' civil justice processes handle cases more efficiently and fairly. Far from being a treatise for specialists, this book is an introductory text for civil justice in the three aforementioned legal systems.

Author : Rachel Kerr,Henry Redwood,James Gow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000331240

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Reconciliation after War by Rachel Kerr,Henry Redwood,James Gow Pdf

This edited volume examines a range of historical and contemporary episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation in the aftermath of war. Reconciliation is a concept that resists easy definition. At the same time, it is almost invariably invoked as a goal of post-conflict reconstruction, peacebuilding and transitional justice. This book examines the considerable ambiguity and controversy surrounding the term and, crucially, asks what has reconciliation entailed historically? What can we learn from past episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation? Taken together, the chapters in this volume adopt an interdisciplinary approach, focused on the question of how reconciliation has been enacted, performed and understood in particular historical episodes, and how that might contribute to our understanding of the concept and its practice. Rather than seek a universal definition, the book focuses on what makes each case of reconciliation unique, and highlights the specificity of reconciliation in individual contexts. This book will be of much interest to students of transitional justice, conflict resolution, human rights, history and International Relations.

Author : Mats Deland,Mark Klamberg,Pål Wrange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367498561

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International Humanitarian Law and Justice by Mats Deland,Mark Klamberg,Pål Wrange Pdf

This book brings together scholars from various fields, including law, history, sociology and international relations to examine this historization of international humanitarian law.

Author : Jon Elster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521548543

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Closing the Books by Jon Elster Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004461802

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Politics and the Histories of International Law by Anonim Pdf

This book brings together 18 contributions by authors from different legal systems and backgrounds. They address the political implications of the writing of the history of legal issues ranging from slavery over the use of force and extraterritorial jurisdiction to Eurocentrism.

Author : Gideon Boas,William Schabas,Michael P. Scharf
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781781005606

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International Criminal Justice by Gideon Boas,William Schabas,Michael P. Scharf Pdf

ÔInternational criminal justice indeed is a crowded field. But this edited collection stands well above the crowd. And it does so with dignity. Through interdisciplinary analysis, the editors skillfully turn shibboleths into intrigues. Theirs is a kaleidoscopic project that scales a gamut of issues: from courtroom discipline, to gender, to the defense, to history. Through vivid deployment of unconventional methods, this edited collection unsettles conventional wisdom. It thereby pushes law and policy toward heartier horizons.Õ Ð Mark A. Drumbl, Washington and Lee University, School of Law, US International criminal justice as a discipline throws up numerous conceptual issues, engaging disciplines such as law, politics, history, sociology and psychology, to name but a few. This book addresses themes around international criminal justice from a mixture of traditional and more radical perspectives. While law, and in particular international law, is at the heart of much of the discussion around this topic, history, sociology and politics are invariably infused and, in some aspects of international criminal justice, are predominant elements. Fundamentally the exploration concerns questions of coherence and legitimacy, which are foundational to both the content and application of the discipline, and the book charts an illuminating path through these diverse perspectives. The contributions in this book come from some of the eminent scholars and practitioners in the area, and will provide some profound insight into and an enriched understanding of international criminal justice, helping to advance the field of study. This ambitious and necessary book will appeal to academics and students of international criminal law, international criminal justice, international law, transitional justice and comparative criminal law, as well as practitioners of international criminal law.

Author : Eric Arthur Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1074533873

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Special Issue Quantification and Criminal Justice History in International Perspective by Eric Arthur Johnson Pdf

Author : Aldo Zammit Borda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789462654273

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Histories Written by International Criminal Courts and Tribunals by Aldo Zammit Borda Pdf

This book argues for a more moderate approach to history-writing in international criminal adjudication by articulating the elements of a “responsible history” normative framework. The question of whether international criminal courts and tribunals (ICTs) ought to write historical narratives has gained renewed relevance in the context of the recent turn to history in international criminal law, the growing attention to the historical legacies of the ad hoc Tribunals and the minimal attention paid to historical context in the first judgment of the International Criminal Court. The starting point for this discussion is that, in cases of mass atrocities, prosecutors and judges are inevitably understood to be engaged in writing history and influencing collective memory, whether or not they so intend. Therefore, while writing history is an inescapable feature of ICTs, there is still today a significant lack of consensus over the proper place of this function. Since Hannah Arendt articulated her doctrine of strict legality, in response to the prosecutor’s expansive didactic approach in Eichmann, the legal debate on the subject has been largely polarised between restrictive and expansive approaches to history-writing in mass atrocity trials. What has been noticeably missing from this debate is the middle ground. The contribution this book seeks to make is precisely to articulate a framework that occupies that ground. The book asks: what are the lenses through which judges of ICTs interpret historical events, what kind of histories do ICTs write? and what kinds of histories should ICTs produce? Its arguments for a more moderate approach to history-writing are based on three distinct, but interrelated grounds: (1) Truth and Justice; (2) Right to Truth; and (3) Legal Epistemology. Different target audiences may benefit from this book. Court officials and legal practitioners may find the normative framework developed herein useful in addressing the tensions between the competing objectives of ICTs and, in particular, in assessing the value of the history-writing function. Lawyers, historians and other academics may also find the analysis of the strengths, constraints and blind spots of the historical narratives written by ICTs interesting. This issue is particularly timely in view of current debates on the legacies of ICTs. Aldo Zammit Borda is Director of the Centre for Access to Justice and Inclusion at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.

Author : Joy Damousi,Katherine Ellinghaus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 0734015615

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Citizenship, Women and Social Justice by Joy Damousi,Katherine Ellinghaus Pdf