International Journal of Transitional Justice Advance Access originally published online on March 25, 2008
International Journal of Transitional Justice 2008 2(1):1-4; doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijm041
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Editorial Note-Transitional Justice Globalized
* Ernst Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School; Member, Council on Foreign Relations; and author of Transitional Justice (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000). E-mail: TeitelRuti@aol.com
Once a year, the International Journal of Transitional Justice will invite a member of its Editorial or International Advisory Board to contribute an Editorial piece reflecting on a key aspect of the field. Professor Ruti Teitel's contribution is the first in this series.
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Interest in transitional justice has surged in legal scholarship, in the human rights field generally and most notably in the domain of politics. ‘Transitional justice’ is an expression I coined in 1991 at the time of the Soviet collapse and on the heels of the late 1980's Latin American transitions to democracy. In proposing this terminology, my aim was to account for the self-conscious construction of a distinctive conception of justice associated with periods of radical political change following past oppressive rule. Today we see that an entire field of inquiry, analysis and practice has ensued that reflects scholarly interest; the launching of this journal, the publication