Overview

Full Product Details

9781780682600

Table of Contents

Reviews

'Transitional justice nowadays is an industry which produces hundreds of text each year and it is difficult to turn our attention to an intellectual product. This book is well-balanced and will find recognition in readers and students of transitional justice, as well as researchers on social transformation. It is a collection in the best tradition of socio-legal research. The book is recommended for two reasons: its serious treatment of criminal justice as a part of transitional justice, and its approach, which locates the problem of transitional justice in post-communist Europe in a broader, comparative context.' Prof. Dr. Adam Czarnota, Scientific Director of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain 'A collection of provocative, thoughtful and superbly documented contributions to our understanding of the dilemmas of transitional justice in post-dictatorial societies. The authors argue that democratic communities cannot function properly if they do not address past crimes and abuses. Genuine reconciliation cannot take place if memory and justice are ignored and denied. With its insightful comparative perspective, this book is highly recommended to all those who care about the relationship between human rights and democracy.' Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland (College Park), author of The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century

Author Information

Agata Fijalkowski is Senior Lecturer in Law at Lancaster University Law School, United Kingdom. She has a Ph.D. in Law from the University of London. She is the author of From Old Times to New Europe (Ashgate, 2010). More recently she has written about retrospective justice in Germany and post-Communist Europe, the maladministration of justice in cases against Polish resistance fighters in Stalinist Poland, and European approaches to totalitarian crimes. Raluca Grosescu is Associate Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. She is currently working on a comparative history of transitional justice in post-dictatorial Eastern Europe and Latin America. She is the author of "" Les communistes dans l'aprs-communisme "". Trajectoires de conversion politique de la nomenklatura roumaine aprs 1989 (Michel Houdiard, 2011) and of various contributions on transitional justice in post-Communist societies.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available