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It’s hard to believe it’s been a week since we launched year 5 of IJL! Thanks to Laia Balcells (Georgetown University Georgetown Department of Government), Nancy Combs (William & Mary William & Mary Law School), Francesca Parente (Christopher Newport University CNU Reiff Center), Kira Allmann, our fellows, and William & Mary Global Research Institute for making it a success!

“US Administrations’ Approaches to Conflict: A Typology” with Dr. David J. Lorenzo is happening now in Forbes 1022!

Did you present a paper at APSA 2023 on a human rights section panel? Best paper award nominations are now open! Questions? Ask committee chair CNU Reiff Center director- [email protected], or committee members Gino Pauselli, Lucrecia García Iommi, @shallow__state and Leah-Larson Rabin

“Disasters, Decisions, and Differing Effects” with Dr. Jennifer Trivedi is starting now! Join us in Luter 121 to hear what she has to say!

“Inequities compound even further in complicated situations like compounding disasters.”

“Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World” with Dr. Irma Adams is starting at 6! Come on out to the Trible Library Theater!

Submission deadline for full papers is one month away! Questions? Contact the guest editors -International Justice Lab director Dr. Kelebogile Zvobgo (she/her) and CNU Reiff Center director Francesca Parente! The call for papers is available here: academic.oup.com/ijtj/pages/cfp

Congrats to our director Francesca Parente and co-author Jillienne Haglund on their article featuring data collected by Reiff Center students in Journal of Law & Courts

📔 “The Afterlives of Transitional Justice” — the 2025 Special Issue of the International Journal of Transitional Justice (Oxford University Press), co-edited by Profs Dr. Kelebogile Zvobgo (she/her) & Francesca Parente — is out now! You can read their editors’ introduction at the link in the comments below.

1️⃣ In “‘The Strength to Comprehend the Incomprehensible,’” Onur Bakiner reads Theodor Adorno for today and challenges us to ponder whether resurgent authoritarianism is due to the world’s failure to confront the violent past. IJTJ vol. 19, issue 1 Oxford University Press (Link in comments)

2️⃣ Geoff Dancy & Oskar Thoms bring new evidence to the long-theorized relationship btwn transitional justice & democracy. They find that TJ decreases the likelihood of democratic reversal but not gradual democratic erosion. IJTJ, vol. 19, issue 1 @OxUniPres (Link in comments)

3️⃣ Cynthia Horne analyzing an original survey finds Latvians prefer that the govt focuses on current issues rather than past ones. Yet political polarization along ethnic lines suggests transitional justice is still needed. IJTJ, vol. 19, issue 1 Oxford University Press (Link in comments)

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4️⃣ In “Divisive Documents,” Sofie Budhoo draws on her fieldwork in Odek, Uganda around the time of the Int'l Criminal Court’s trial of Dominic Ongwen to reveal many unintended consequences of legal documentation practices. IJTJ, vol. 19, issue 1 Oxford University Press (Link in comments)

5️⃣ In “The State of Repair,” Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch and Jennifer Dixon conduct an extensive text analysis of NGO and IGO reports, notably by Amnesty International and the United Nations, since 1945, to map evolution in the norm of reparations. IJTJ, vol. 19, issue 1 Oxford University Press (Link in comments)

6️⃣ In “Difficult Stories that Haunt,” Ulrike Lühe and erin baines challenge Western empirical social science approaches that transform narratives of harm and abuse into “clean” and “manageable” data for research analysis. IJTJ, vol. 19, issue 1 Oxford University Press (Link in comments)

7️⃣ In “Breaking the Echo Chambers,” Noha Aboueldahab | نهى ابوالدهب invites an intellectual exchange btwn transitional justice + Third World Approaches to International Law, to blend their foci on policy prescription and scholarly praxis. IJTJ, vol. 19, issue 1 Oxford University Press (Link in comments)

8️⃣ In “The (Many) Afterlives of Transitional Justice,” Tine Destrooper & Elke Evrard conduct an important study of practitioner views of the field’s evolution. With 69 participants from 7 countries, this isn’t one to miss! IJTJ, vol. 19, issue 1 Oxford University Press (Link in comments)

9️⃣ In “Listening and Preparing the Society to Engage,” Prada Ramírez and Wingender reflect on their work with the Colombian Commission for Truth, Coexistence and Non-Recurrence, incl. re: outreach, communication, and legacy. IJTJ, vol. 19, issue 1 Oxford University Press (Link in comments)

🔟 Last but not least, Cath Collins & Selbi Durdiyeva reviewed 3 recent books that, like our field, are epistemologically and methodologically diverse and rich, to say nothing of the empirical cases they study in new light. IJTJ, vol. 19, issue 1 Oxford University Press (Link in comments)