Leebaw, Bronwyn Anne.

Judging state-sponsored violence, imagining political change [electronic resource] / Bronwyn Anne Leebaw. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. - xi, 210 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: transitional justice and the 'gray zone'; 2. Human rights legalism and the legacy of Nuremberg; 3. A different kind of justice: South Africa's alternative to legalism; 4. Political judgment and transitional justice: actors and spectators; 5. Rethinking restorative justice; 6. Remembering resistance; 7. Conclusion: the shadows of the past.

"This book offers a new way to think about the legacies of the Nuremberg Trials and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which transformed the theory and practice of transitional justice"--


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






International police.
Transitional justice.
Political violence.
Crimes against humanity.
Intervention (International law)
Truth commissions--History.--South Africa
War crime trials--Germany--Nuremberg.


Electronic books.

KZ6374 / .L44 2011

342.08