Book Launch and Discussion: 'Justice Framed: A Genealogy of Transitional Justice' (Marcos Zunino)

Book Launch and Discussion: 'Justice Framed: A Genealogy of Transitional Justice'

Dr Marcos Zunino, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law

 

About the book

Why are certain responses to past human rights violations considered instances of transitional justice while others are disregarded? This study interrogates the history of the discourse and practice of the field to answer that question. Zunino argues that a number of characteristics inherited as transitional justice emerged as a discourse in the 1980s and 1990s have shaped which practices of the present and the past are now regarded as valid responses to past human rights violations. He traces these influential characteristics from Argentina's transition to democracy in 1983, the end of communism in Eastern Europe, the development of international criminal justice, and the South African truth commission of 1995. Through an analysis of the post-World War II period, the decolonisation process and the Cold War, Zunino identifies a series of episodes and mechanisms omitted from the history of transitional justice because they did not conform to its accepted characteristics. 

 

About the speaker

Dr Marcos Zunino is Research Fellow in Judicial Independence and Constitutional Transitions. His current work at BIICL looks into the judiciary in the context of transitional justice and constitutional change. His areas of research include transitional justice, human rights, constitutional law, international criminal law and public international law. He is the author of Justice Framed: A Genealogy of Transitional Justice as well as of a number of journal articles and book chapters.

Marcos has previously worked for the United Nations, international non-governmental organisations and the Argentine judiciary. He was a Scholar in Residence at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice of New York University School of Law and served as a Legal Officer at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.

Marcos completed a PhD in Law at the University of Cambridge where he was an International Scholar. His doctoral research focused on the history of transitional justice. He also holds a master's in international studies from the University of Queensland (Australia) and a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), where he is a qualified lawyer.

 

This event is free and open to all. No registration necessary.