Responsibility, Justice and Reconciliation

With a particular emphasis on transitional justice, its particular logic, emphasis on reconciliation or restoration, and its particular uses of criminal law, typically amnesty, there has developed an important research interest in Glasgow around the political uses of predominantly criminal and constitutional law to enable and institutionalise processes of regime change and social-political transition and the difficult demands it places on the law to navigate.

Previous events

‘Law, Obligation, Community’ workshop - 3-4 May 2016 

Other Publications

Christodoulidis, E., and Veitch, S. (2008) Reconciliation as surrender: configurations of responsibility and memory. In: Du Bois, F. and Pedain, A. (eds.) Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. Cambridge University Press, pp. 9-36. ISBN 9780521882057