Jamie Rowen
Biographic Data
| ID | 129725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie Rowen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Rowen |
| SIGNATURE | ROWEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Interpreting History: Observations on Methodology in Taylor’s The Social Constitution
This review essay articulates methodological insights gleaned from Whitney Taylor’s The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Through an analysis of how Taylor used interview and comparative methods, the essay addresses the opportunities and challenges of drawing on interview data to make sense of past events. It also explores the use of comparative methods, both comparing one …
Strategic Adaptation in a Crisis: Treatment Court Responses to Covid-19
This article draws on a case study of how Massachusetts treatment courts responded to the COVID-19 pandemic to address two intersecting theoretical and policy questions: (1) How do actors who work within criminal legal organizations use the law to solve complex social and political problems? (2) How do organizations working within multiple, fragmented organizational fields respond to an exogenous shock? The findings draw on interviews with eighty…
Victim, perpetrator, neither: Attitudes on deservingness and culpability in immigration law
This study examines whether there is popular support for a restrictive immigration policy aimed at denying safe haven to human rights abusers and those affiliated with terrorism. We designed a public opinion survey experiment that asks respondents to evaluate whether low level or high-level Taliban members who otherwise qualify for refugee status deserve immigration benefits. We found that a majority of respondents did not immediately deny a visa…
The Promise and Perils of Urban Land Restitution in Latvia
∞ In this article we address the transitional justice policy of restitution in kind with a case study of urban land reform in Latvia. Contributing to scholarship on the challenge of property reforms after generations of dispossession, we examine the economic, social and political meanings of property restitution in this post-Soviet context. Using process-tracing techniques to examine the creation and implementation of Latvia’s policy in the after…
Worthy of Justice: A Veterans Treatment Court in Practice
This article examines the purpose and practice of a Veterans Treatment Court (VTC), a new type of problem‐solving court designed to connect qualifying former service members in the criminal justice system with social services. While existing studies of VTCs explain these courts by focusing on veterans' distinct needs or deservingness based on their military service, this article argues that these courts are being created because of societal belie…
Patricia Naftali, La construction du ‘droit à la vérité' en droit international
Patricia Naftali charts an ambitious course in La construction du ‘droit à la vérité’ en droit international. Naftali introduces her lengthy book by explaining her reliance on social theorists, including Pierre Félix Bourdieu, Bruno Latour and Michel Foucault, to explain how the concept of a right to truth became entrenched in international law. Along with other scholars, such as Sandrine Lefranc and Isabelle Delpla, Naftali contributes to a vari…
Figuring Victims in International Criminal Justice: The Case of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal . By Maria Elander. New York: Routledge, 2018
The Politics of a New Legal Regime: Governing International Crime through Domestic Immigration Law
Through an analysis of a unique and understudied unit within the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Unit (HRVWCU, or “the Unit”), this article addresses the following theoretical and policy question: once someone has been admitted to the United States and granted permanent residency, or even citizenship, how does the law facilitate the reversal of that decision based on acts committed long ago and …
Taiwan’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee: The Geopolitics of Transitional Justice in a Contested State
Journal Article Taiwan's Truth and Reconciliation Committee: The Geopolitics of Transitional Justice in a Contested State Get access Ian Rowen, Ian Rowen * Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Ethnology, Taipei, Taiwan. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jamie Rowen Jamie Rowen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Jo…
War Crimes Tribunals, Crimes against Humanity and Transitional Justice
Isabelle Delpla, Le Mal en proces: Eichmann et les theodicees modernes
In the recent feature film entitled ‘Arendt’, the protagonist struggles to reconcile the stark contrasts in the trial of Adolf Eichmann. She ponders Eichmann’s lack of expression contrasted with the emotionality present in the courtroom and, more generally, in Israel, where survivors of the Holocaust and other immigrants are struggling to develop a shared national identity. Throughout the film, we see Hannah Arendt pausing to remember interaction…
Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement: African American Explorations of the Gandhian Repertoire By Sean Chabot Lexington Books. 2012. 207 pages. $80.00 cloth, $34.99 paper
Journal Article Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement: African American Explorations of the Gandhian Repertoire By Sean Chabot Lexington Books. 2012. 207 pages. $80.00 cloth, $34.99 paper Get access Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement: African American Explorations of the Gandhian Repertoire By Sean Chabot Lexington Books. 2012. 207 pages. $80.00 cloth, $34.99 paper. Jamie Rowen Jamie Rowen University of Toronto jamie.rowe…
Mobilizing Truth: Agenda Setting in a Transnational Social Movement
This article provides a neoinstitutionalist account of how a transnational social movement (TSM) sets its agenda. A theoretical framework is presented to reveal how logics from the transnational and local organizational fields influence legal mobilization. To provide insight into how a TSM accommodates contradictory and competing logics within and between these fields, this article examines mobilization around a fact-finding commission, sometimes…
Context, Timing and the Dynamics of Transitional Justice: A Historical Perspective
Legal process is invoked by supporters of transitional justice as necessary if not a precondition for societies affected by mass violence to transition into a new period of peace and stability. In this paper, we question the presumption that trials and/or truth commissions should be an early response to initiating a transitional justice process. We conducted a multi-factorial, qualitative analysis of seven case studies in countries impacted by ma…
Context, Timing and the Dynamics of Transitional Justice: A Historical Perspective
Legal process is invoked by supporters of transitional justice as necessary if not a precondition for societies affected by mass violence to transition into a new period of peace and stability. In this paper, we question the presumption that trials and/or truth commissions should be an early response to initiating a transitional justice process. We conducted a multi-factorial, qualitative analysis of seven case studies in countries impacted by ma…
Worthy of Justice: A Veterans Treatment Court in Practice
This article examines the purpose and practice of a Veterans Treatment Court (VTC), a new type of problem‐solving court designed to connect qualifying former service members in the criminal justice system with social services. While existing studies of VTCs explain these courts by focusing on veterans' distinct needs or deservingness based on their military service, this article argues that these courts are being created because of societal belie…
The Politics of a New Legal Regime: Governing International Crime through Domestic Immigration Law
Through an analysis of a unique and understudied unit within the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Unit (HRVWCU, or “the Unit”), this article addresses the following theoretical and policy question: once someone has been admitted to the United States and granted permanent residency, or even citizenship, how does the law facilitate the reversal of that decision based on acts committed long ago and …
Taiwan’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee: The Geopolitics of Transitional Justice in a Contested State
Journal Article Taiwan's Truth and Reconciliation Committee: The Geopolitics of Transitional Justice in a Contested State Get access Ian Rowen, Ian Rowen * Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Ethnology, Taipei, Taiwan. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jamie Rowen Jamie Rowen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Jo…
Mobilizing Truth: Agenda Setting in a Transnational Social Movement
This article provides a neoinstitutionalist account of how a transnational social movement (TSM) sets its agenda. A theoretical framework is presented to reveal how logics from the transnational and local organizational fields influence legal mobilization. To provide insight into how a TSM accommodates contradictory and competing logics within and between these fields, this article examines mobilization around a fact-finding commission, sometimes…
Strategic Adaptation in a Crisis: Treatment Court Responses to Covid-19
This article draws on a case study of how Massachusetts treatment courts responded to the COVID-19 pandemic to address two intersecting theoretical and policy questions: (1) How do actors who work within criminal legal organizations use the law to solve complex social and political problems? (2) How do organizations working within multiple, fragmented organizational fields respond to an exogenous shock? The findings draw on interviews with eighty…
The Promise and Perils of Urban Land Restitution in Latvia
∞ In this article we address the transitional justice policy of restitution in kind with a case study of urban land reform in Latvia. Contributing to scholarship on the challenge of property reforms after generations of dispossession, we examine the economic, social and political meanings of property restitution in this post-Soviet context. Using process-tracing techniques to examine the creation and implementation of Latvia’s policy in the after…
Context, Timing and the Dynamics of Transitional Justice: A Historical Perspective
Legal process is invoked by supporters of transitional justice as necessary if not a precondition for societies affected by mass violence to transition into a new period of peace and stability. In this paper, we question the presumption that trials and/or truth commissions should be an early response to initiating a transitional justice process. We conducted a multi-factorial, qualitative analysis of seven case studies in countries impacted by ma…
Mobilizing Truth: Agenda Setting in a Transnational Social Movement
This article provides a neoinstitutionalist account of how a transnational social movement (TSM) sets its agenda. A theoretical framework is presented to reveal how logics from the transnational and local organizational fields influence legal mobilization. To provide insight into how a TSM accommodates contradictory and competing logics within and between these fields, this article examines mobilization around a fact-finding commission, sometimes…
Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement: African American Explorations of the Gandhian Repertoire By Sean Chabot Lexington Books. 2012. 207 pages. $80.00 cloth, $34.99 paper
Journal Article Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement: African American Explorations of the Gandhian Repertoire By Sean Chabot Lexington Books. 2012. 207 pages. $80.00 cloth, $34.99 paper Get access Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement: African American Explorations of the Gandhian Repertoire By Sean Chabot Lexington Books. 2012. 207 pages. $80.00 cloth, $34.99 paper. Jamie Rowen Jamie Rowen University of Toronto jamie.rowe…
Isabelle Delpla, Le Mal en proces: Eichmann et les theodicees modernes
In the recent feature film entitled ‘Arendt’, the protagonist struggles to reconcile the stark contrasts in the trial of Adolf Eichmann. She ponders Eichmann’s lack of expression contrasted with the emotionality present in the courtroom and, more generally, in Israel, where survivors of the Holocaust and other immigrants are struggling to develop a shared national identity. Throughout the film, we see Hannah Arendt pausing to remember interaction…
War Crimes Tribunals, Crimes against Humanity and Transitional Justice
Taiwan’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee: The Geopolitics of Transitional Justice in a Contested State
Journal Article Taiwan's Truth and Reconciliation Committee: The Geopolitics of Transitional Justice in a Contested State Get access Ian Rowen, Ian Rowen * Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Ethnology, Taipei, Taiwan. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jamie Rowen Jamie Rowen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Jo…
The Politics of a New Legal Regime: Governing International Crime through Domestic Immigration Law
Through an analysis of a unique and understudied unit within the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Unit (HRVWCU, or “the Unit”), this article addresses the following theoretical and policy question: once someone has been admitted to the United States and granted permanent residency, or even citizenship, how does the law facilitate the reversal of that decision based on acts committed long ago and …
Patricia Naftali, La construction du ‘droit à la vérité' en droit international
Patricia Naftali charts an ambitious course in La construction du ‘droit à la vérité’ en droit international. Naftali introduces her lengthy book by explaining her reliance on social theorists, including Pierre Félix Bourdieu, Bruno Latour and Michel Foucault, to explain how the concept of a right to truth became entrenched in international law. Along with other scholars, such as Sandrine Lefranc and Isabelle Delpla, Naftali contributes to a vari…
Figuring Victims in International Criminal Justice: The Case of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal . By Maria Elander. New York: Routledge, 2018
The Promise and Perils of Urban Land Restitution in Latvia
∞ In this article we address the transitional justice policy of restitution in kind with a case study of urban land reform in Latvia. Contributing to scholarship on the challenge of property reforms after generations of dispossession, we examine the economic, social and political meanings of property restitution in this post-Soviet context. Using process-tracing techniques to examine the creation and implementation of Latvia’s policy in the after…
Worthy of Justice: A Veterans Treatment Court in Practice
This article examines the purpose and practice of a Veterans Treatment Court (VTC), a new type of problem‐solving court designed to connect qualifying former service members in the criminal justice system with social services. While existing studies of VTCs explain these courts by focusing on veterans' distinct needs or deservingness based on their military service, this article argues that these courts are being created because of societal belie…
Victim, perpetrator, neither: Attitudes on deservingness and culpability in immigration law
This study examines whether there is popular support for a restrictive immigration policy aimed at denying safe haven to human rights abusers and those affiliated with terrorism. We designed a public opinion survey experiment that asks respondents to evaluate whether low level or high-level Taliban members who otherwise qualify for refugee status deserve immigration benefits. We found that a majority of respondents did not immediately deny a visa…
Strategic Adaptation in a Crisis: Treatment Court Responses to Covid-19
This article draws on a case study of how Massachusetts treatment courts responded to the COVID-19 pandemic to address two intersecting theoretical and policy questions: (1) How do actors who work within criminal legal organizations use the law to solve complex social and political problems? (2) How do organizations working within multiple, fragmented organizational fields respond to an exogenous shock? The findings draw on interviews with eighty…
Interpreting History: Observations on Methodology in Taylor’s The Social Constitution
This review essay articulates methodological insights gleaned from Whitney Taylor’s The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Through an analysis of how Taylor used interview and comparative methods, the essay addresses the opportunities and challenges of drawing on interview data to make sense of past events. It also explores the use of comparative methods, both comparing one …
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