Law in Transition

Human Rights, Development and Transitional Justice

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19906491
AutoresRuth Buchanan (autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Fecha de publicación2014-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaLaw in Transition (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialHart Publishing (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781474201841
OpenAlexW434992001
ISBN9781474201841
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12

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

Economic Justice · Epistemology · Human rights · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Premise · Scholarship · Sociology · Transitional justice · Human Rights and Development · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa