Book Review: Globalising Transitional Justice: Contemporary Essays
Book Review: Globalising Transitional Justice: Contemporary Essays

Summary/Abstract: The review of: ‘Globalising Transitional Justice: Contemporary Essays’ by Ruti G. Teitel, Oxford University Press. 2014. Ruti G. Teitel is an established authority within the field of transitional justice. She coined the term in the late 1980s and in the year 2000 she published her monograph ‘Transitional Justice’, which is still for many scholars the entry point into the field, but also a starting point for expanding the field beyond the strict adherence to the legal aspects of ensuring the right to justice. In 2014, Teitel published her new book, ‘Globalising Transitional Justice’. In which she takes stake of the development of the field she founded several decades earlier, and its expansions. ‘Globalising Transitional Justice’ is not a monograph but a collection of Teitel’s essays published elsewhere between 2000 and 2014 along with an introduction and an epilogue detailing the development of the field, both academically, legally, and normatively. It is well worth a read, but the reader should not expect a monograph in the style of her 2000 book, nor a textbook-type final coining of terminology and practical uses of transitional justice. ‘Globalising Transitional Justice’ is a portrait of a field in motion from a scholar that moves with it.

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