Law in Transition - Human Rights, Development and Transitional Justice (Paperback, New as Paperback)

Law has become the vehicle by which countries in the 'developing world', including post-conflict states or states undergoing constitutional transformation, must steer the course of social and economic, legal and political change. Legal mechanisms, in particular, the instruments as well as concepts of human rights, play an increasingly central role in the discourses and practices of both development and transitional justice. These developments can be seen as part of a tendency towards convergence within the wider set of discourses and practices in global governance. While this process of convergence of formerly distinct normative and conceptual fields of theory and practice has been both celebrated and critiqued at the level of theory, the present collection provides, through a series of studies drawn from a variety of contexts in which human rights advocacy and transitional justice initiatives are colliding with development projects, programmes and objectives, a more nuanced and critical account of contemporary developments. The book includes essays by many of the leading experts writing at the intersection of development, rights and transitional justice studies. Notwithstanding the theoretical and practical challenges presented by the complex interaction of these fields, the premise of the book is that it is only through engagement and dialogue among hitherto distinct fields of scholarship and practice that a better understanding of the institutional and normative issues arising in contemporary law and development and transitional justice contexts will be possible. The book is designed for research and teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

General

Imprint:	Hart Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Osgoode Readers
Release date:	September 2016
Editors:	Ruth Buchanan • Peer Zumbansen
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	372
Edition:	New as Paperback
ISBN-13:	978-1-5099-0738-0
Categories:	Books > Law > International law > Public international law > International human rights law
LSN:	1-5099-0738-6
Barcode:	9781509907380

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