James Sweeney
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Sweeney |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweeney |
| SIGNATURE | SWEENEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5369-382X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The EU's promotion of transitional justice: External and internal dimensions of a patchwork of policies
This article presents a qualitative analysis of the EU's approaches to human rights violations in selected states’ ‘troubled pasts’, employing insights from and critiques of the interdisciplinary field of ‘transitional justice’. By viewing the EU's approaches to troubled pasts through the lens of transitional justice, it is possible to trace a complex web of external and internal policies that have been invoked to address them. Whilst in the Comm…
Transitional Justice and Transitional Journalism: Case-Study on Kosovo
This article documents the findings of an empirical project combining socio-legal and media studies, which examined journalists’ perceptions of their role in relation to transitional justice in Kosovo. Based upon the qualitative analysis of 30 semi-structured interviews with professional journalists in Kosovo during the summer of 2018, the article shows that key issues in the study of transitional justice appear in respect of what, building on no…
The Elusive Right to Truth in Transitional Human Rights Jurisprudence
This article undertakes a comparative legal analysis of the scope of an emerging legal duty to find the truth about historical human rights abuses after periods of political transition. There is substantial inconsistency between human rights regimes on how they establish temporal jurisdiction in their transitional jurisprudence, which has not yet been systematically investigated. This contribution fills the gap in the literature by identifying an…
Rodney Stark, Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History
Restorative Justice and Transitional Justice at the ECHR
The entire jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights contains just one reference to ‘restorative justice’, in the 2010 case of Đokić v. Bosnia and Herzegovina . The case concerned housing restitution after the conflict in former Yugoslavia and the reference to restorative justice was a quotation from the UN’s ‘Pinheiro Principles’. In its admissibility decision on 31 May 2011 in the case of Sfountouris and Others v. Germany , the Europe…
The Exclusion of (Failed) Asylum Seekers from Housing and Home: Towards an Oppositional Discourse
‘Housing’– the practical provision of a roof over one's head – is experienced by users as ‘home’– broadly described as housing plus the experiential elements of dwelling. Conversely, being without housing, commonly described as ‘homelessness’, is experienced not only as an absence of shelter but in the philosophical sense of ‘ontological homelessness’ and alienation from the conditions for well‐being. For asylum seekers, these experiences are del…
Credibility, Proof and Refugee Law
Assessing credibility is a legitimate and significant step in determining refugee status, but the term ‘credibility’ is employed with a range of descriptive intentions and legal consequences. It may be used loosely to express the strength of the case, or it may be given a very specific role in relation to the admissibility of the applicant's unsupported statements as evidence. By introducing some basic concepts from the law of evidence, the thres…
Margins of Appreciation: Cultural Relativity and the European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era
The number of states participating in the Council of Europe's system for the protection of human rights has grown rapidly over recent years. Established in 1949 with an initial membership of 10 states, the Council has now grown to a membership of 46, 2 dwarfing the EU in its geographical reach. The most significant period of enlargement has been since the end of the Cold War as the formerly Communist states from central and eastern Europe flocked…
The New Religious Order. A Study of the Passionists in Britain and Ireland, 1945-1990 and the Option for the Poor
Individual Differences in Eyewitness Memory and Confidence Judgments
The relationships between witness characteristics, event memory, and confidence judgments were investigated. A day after seeing two confederates (Cs) make an announcement, 170 Ss were given an unexpected memory test. They also completed the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) and Rotter Scale. Neither of these test scores was related to memory accuracy, but female Ss were found to be more accurate than male Ss in their memory for the female C (but…
Cooperative choice in N-person dilemma situation
Cooperation and Competitive Goals: A Social-Comparison Analysis
Ss' choice behavior in two types of mixed-motive games was used to classify them according to their predominant goal orientation. Ss with competitive (Relative Gain) goals and those with individualistic (Own Gain) goals were then presented with 50 decomposed Prisoner's Dilemma games in which they interacted with a conditionally cooperative other. Some Ss saw their own and the other person's outcomes displayed on each trial, while others also saw …
Credibility, Proof and Refugee Law
Assessing credibility is a legitimate and significant step in determining refugee status, but the term ‘credibility’ is employed with a range of descriptive intentions and legal consequences. It may be used loosely to express the strength of the case, or it may be given a very specific role in relation to the admissibility of the applicant's unsupported statements as evidence. By introducing some basic concepts from the law of evidence, the thres…
Cooperative choice in N-person dilemma situation
Margins of Appreciation: Cultural Relativity and the European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era
The number of states participating in the Council of Europe's system for the protection of human rights has grown rapidly over recent years. Established in 1949 with an initial membership of 10 states, the Council has now grown to a membership of 46, 2 dwarfing the EU in its geographical reach. The most significant period of enlargement has been since the end of the Cold War as the formerly Communist states from central and eastern Europe flocked…
The Exclusion of (Failed) Asylum Seekers from Housing and Home: Towards an Oppositional Discourse
‘Housing’– the practical provision of a roof over one's head – is experienced by users as ‘home’– broadly described as housing plus the experiential elements of dwelling. Conversely, being without housing, commonly described as ‘homelessness’, is experienced not only as an absence of shelter but in the philosophical sense of ‘ontological homelessness’ and alienation from the conditions for well‐being. For asylum seekers, these experiences are del…
The Elusive Right to Truth in Transitional Human Rights Jurisprudence
This article undertakes a comparative legal analysis of the scope of an emerging legal duty to find the truth about historical human rights abuses after periods of political transition. There is substantial inconsistency between human rights regimes on how they establish temporal jurisdiction in their transitional jurisprudence, which has not yet been systematically investigated. This contribution fills the gap in the literature by identifying an…
Restorative Justice and Transitional Justice at the ECHR
The entire jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights contains just one reference to ‘restorative justice’, in the 2010 case of Đokić v. Bosnia and Herzegovina . The case concerned housing restitution after the conflict in former Yugoslavia and the reference to restorative justice was a quotation from the UN’s ‘Pinheiro Principles’. In its admissibility decision on 31 May 2011 in the case of Sfountouris and Others v. Germany , the Europe…
Individual Differences in Eyewitness Memory and Confidence Judgments
The relationships between witness characteristics, event memory, and confidence judgments were investigated. A day after seeing two confederates (Cs) make an announcement, 170 Ss were given an unexpected memory test. They also completed the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) and Rotter Scale. Neither of these test scores was related to memory accuracy, but female Ss were found to be more accurate than male Ss in their memory for the female C (but…
Cooperation and Competitive Goals: A Social-Comparison Analysis
Ss' choice behavior in two types of mixed-motive games was used to classify them according to their predominant goal orientation. Ss with competitive (Relative Gain) goals and those with individualistic (Own Gain) goals were then presented with 50 decomposed Prisoner's Dilemma games in which they interacted with a conditionally cooperative other. Some Ss saw their own and the other person's outcomes displayed on each trial, while others also saw …
Cooperative choice in N-person dilemma situation
Individual Differences in Eyewitness Memory and Confidence Judgments
The relationships between witness characteristics, event memory, and confidence judgments were investigated. A day after seeing two confederates (Cs) make an announcement, 170 Ss were given an unexpected memory test. They also completed the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) and Rotter Scale. Neither of these test scores was related to memory accuracy, but female Ss were found to be more accurate than male Ss in their memory for the female C (but…
The New Religious Order. A Study of the Passionists in Britain and Ireland, 1945-1990 and the Option for the Poor
Margins of Appreciation: Cultural Relativity and the European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era
The number of states participating in the Council of Europe's system for the protection of human rights has grown rapidly over recent years. Established in 1949 with an initial membership of 10 states, the Council has now grown to a membership of 46, 2 dwarfing the EU in its geographical reach. The most significant period of enlargement has been since the end of the Cold War as the formerly Communist states from central and eastern Europe flocked…
Credibility, Proof and Refugee Law
Assessing credibility is a legitimate and significant step in determining refugee status, but the term ‘credibility’ is employed with a range of descriptive intentions and legal consequences. It may be used loosely to express the strength of the case, or it may be given a very specific role in relation to the admissibility of the applicant's unsupported statements as evidence. By introducing some basic concepts from the law of evidence, the thres…
The Exclusion of (Failed) Asylum Seekers from Housing and Home: Towards an Oppositional Discourse
‘Housing’– the practical provision of a roof over one's head – is experienced by users as ‘home’– broadly described as housing plus the experiential elements of dwelling. Conversely, being without housing, commonly described as ‘homelessness’, is experienced not only as an absence of shelter but in the philosophical sense of ‘ontological homelessness’ and alienation from the conditions for well‐being. For asylum seekers, these experiences are del…
Restorative Justice and Transitional Justice at the ECHR
The entire jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights contains just one reference to ‘restorative justice’, in the 2010 case of Đokić v. Bosnia and Herzegovina . The case concerned housing restitution after the conflict in former Yugoslavia and the reference to restorative justice was a quotation from the UN’s ‘Pinheiro Principles’. In its admissibility decision on 31 May 2011 in the case of Sfountouris and Others v. Germany , the Europe…
The Elusive Right to Truth in Transitional Human Rights Jurisprudence
This article undertakes a comparative legal analysis of the scope of an emerging legal duty to find the truth about historical human rights abuses after periods of political transition. There is substantial inconsistency between human rights regimes on how they establish temporal jurisdiction in their transitional jurisprudence, which has not yet been systematically investigated. This contribution fills the gap in the literature by identifying an…
Rodney Stark, Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History
Transitional Justice and Transitional Journalism: Case-Study on Kosovo
This article documents the findings of an empirical project combining socio-legal and media studies, which examined journalists’ perceptions of their role in relation to transitional justice in Kosovo. Based upon the qualitative analysis of 30 semi-structured interviews with professional journalists in Kosovo during the summer of 2018, the article shows that key issues in the study of transitional justice appear in respect of what, building on no…
The EU's promotion of transitional justice: External and internal dimensions of a patchwork of policies
This article presents a qualitative analysis of the EU's approaches to human rights violations in selected states’ ‘troubled pasts’, employing insights from and critiques of the interdisciplinary field of ‘transitional justice’. By viewing the EU's approaches to troubled pasts through the lens of transitional justice, it is possible to trace a complex web of external and internal policies that have been invoked to address them. Whilst in the Comm…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Human rights (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Transitional justice (4 works) · International Law and Human Rights (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)