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Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness, Mark Freeman
Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School, USA. TeitelRuti@aol.com
Cambridge University Press, August 2006, 422pp. ISBN: 978-0521615648- paperback ($31.99)
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In the last decade academic writing on transitional justice has proliferated, but scholarly attempts to evaluate real world responses to dealing with the wrongs of the past and building post-conflict societies are a more recent phenomenon. Of the works that focus on experiences with truth commissions, Mark Freeman's book is perhaps the only sustained effort to examine self-consciously the question of the appropriate