Constitutionalizing Transitional Justice

How Constitutions and Constitutional Courts Deal with Past Atrocity
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-138-58575-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: Routledge Socio-Legal Frontiers of Transitional Justice

This book explores the complicated relationship between constitutions and transitional justice. It brings together scholars and practitioners from different countries to analyze the indispensable role of constitutions and constitutional courts in the process of overcoming political injustice of the past. Issues raised in the book include the role of a new constitution for the successful practice of transitional justice after democratization, revolution or civil war, and the difficulties faced by the court while dealing with mass human rights infringements with limited legal tools. The work also examines whether constitutionalizing transitional justice is a better strategy for new democracies in response to political injustice from the past. It further addresses the complex issue of backslides of democracy and consequences of constitutionalizing transitional justice. The group of international authors address the interplay of the constitution/court and transitional justice in their native countries, along with theoretical underpinnings of the success or unfulfilled promises of transitional justice from a comparative perspective.

The book will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of Transitional Justice, Comparative Constitutional Law, Human Rights Studies, International Criminal Law, Genocide Studies, Law and Politics, and Legal History.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huang, Cheng-Yi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Contexts of Constitutionalizing Transitional Justice: An introduction

Part 1 Constitutional Origins of Transitional Justice

Chapter 1: The Dilemmas of Transitional Justice and the South African Experience

Chapter 2: Facing the Shadows of the Past during Transitions: The Role of the Constitutions in the Case of Hungary

Chapter 3: Constitutional Divergence and Transitional Justice in South Korea and Taiwan

Part 2 Constitutional Process of Transitional Justice

Chapter 4: Constitutional Justice and Negotiated Peace in Colombia

Chapter 5: Constitutions, Courts, and the Quest for Transitional Justice: The Case of Chile

Chapter 6: Coordinated Transition in East Central Europe and the Role of Constitutional Courts in Transitional Justice: Experiences from Hungary and Moldova

Chapter 7: The Determinants of the Polish Transformation at the Turn of the 21st Century: In View of the Judgments of the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland

Part 3 Constitutional Consequences of Transitional Justice

Chapter 8: Transitional Justice in a 19th-Century Constitution: Cautionary Observations from the United States

Chapter 9: ‘Cadres’ in Post-communist Transition: Shifting the Loyalty Standards in Public Service after Regime Change

Chapter 10: Between Blaming and Naming: Constitutional Review of Bans on Communist Parties in Post-Soviet States

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cheng-Yi Huang is Research Professor at the Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, and Professor at the Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.