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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Law in Transition: Human Rights Development and Transitional Justice 2014 by Edited by Ruth Buchanan Edited by Peer Zumbansen
Law is frequently the vehicle by which developing countries including post-conflict or transitional states moving towards constitutional democracy must steer the course of social and economic change. Legal mechanisms in particular the machinery of human rights play a 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 of global governance. And while this process of convergence has been 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 programs and objectives a more nuanced and critical account of contemporary developments. The volume includes essays by leading experts writing at the intersection of development rights and transitional justice studies. The premise of the volume is that it is only through engagement and dialogue among hitherto distinct fields of scholarship and practice that a better understanding of the institutional and normative issues arising in contemporary law and development and transitional justice contexts will be possible.