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Is there a point to international justice? Many contend that tribunals deliver not only justice but truth, reconciliation, peace, democratization, and the rule of law. These are the transitional justice ideals frequently invoked in relation to the international hybrid tribunal in Cambodia that is trying senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime for genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the mid-to-late 1970s. In this ground-breaking book, Alexander Hinton argues these claims are a facade masking what is most critical: the ways in which transitional justice is translated, experienced, and understood in everyday life. Rather than reading the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in the language of global justice and human rights, survivors understand the proceedings in their own terms, including Buddhist beliefs and on-going relationships with the spirits of the dead.

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The Justice Fa ade is a ground-breaking book. Hinton provides a remarkable, closely observed study of transitional justice. Bringing his longstanding experience in post-genocide Cambodia to bear, he skilfully overturns much conventional wisdom about what it takes to come to terms with historic injustice. With this highly imaginative book, Hinton advances the study and practice of transitional justice in innumerable ways. The Justice Fa ade is essential reading for anyone intent on exporting the rule of law. - Jens Meierhenrich, author of The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat: A Ethnography of Nazi Law Behind the fa ade of the utopia of contemporary transitional justice, Alexander Laban Hinton finds a different set of personal realities. His extraordinary ethnography and phenomenology of the processes unleashed by Cambodia's attempt to reckon with the genocidal past is the richest treatment of what transitional justice means as lived experience, beyond the familiar distractions of the promotional advertising and the liberal democratic teleology of the field. - Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World

"""The Justice Fa�ade is a ground-breaking book. Hinton provides a remarkable, closely observed study of transitional justice. Bringing his longstanding experience in post-genocide Cambodia to bear, he skilfully overturns much conventional wisdom about what it takes to come to terms with historic injustice. With this highly imaginative book, Hinton advances the study and practice of transitional justice in innumerable ways. The Justice Fa�ade is essential reading for anyone intent on exporting the rule of law."" - Jens Meierhenrich, author of The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat: A Ethnography of Nazi Law ""Behind the fa�ade of the utopia of contemporary transitional justice, Alexander Laban Hinton finds a different set of personal realities. His extraordinary ethnography and phenomenology of the processes unleashed by Cambodia's attempt to reckon with the genocidal past is the richest treatment of what transitional justice means as lived experience, beyond the familiar distractions of the promotional advertising and the liberal democratic teleology of the field."" - Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World"

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Alexander Hinton, Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University Alexander Hinton is Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Professor of Anthropology, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University. The American Anthropological Association selected Hinton as the recipient of the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology. Hinton was listed as one of 'Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide' and is a past President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Hinton has received fellowships from a range of institutions and was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Most recently Hinton was a convener of the international ""Rethinking Peace Studies"" initiative and served as an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

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