This course will explore the right to truth from an interdisciplinary perspective. It invites students to critically engage with truth as a right in transitional justice scenarios, focusing on the exploration of the construction of truth through law and its relation to justice. Through the foundational tenets of memory, reconciliation and punishment, the course enquires into the assumed exceptionality of the right to truth in transitions, examining if and how it operates in ordinary settings. Simultaneously, the course offers an overarching view of the consolidation of the right to truth in the framework of international human rights, and the specific obligations it entails for states. Drawing on a broad variety of cases of ongoing and past transitional justice processes in the Global South, the course intends to foster challenging and critical perspectives on the right to truth as a legal claim.
Anamaria MUNOZ
Séminaire
English
Spring 2023-2024
1. Essay in pairs (20%). Due date: Week 4, 800-1000 word limit.
2. Mid Term Exam (30%)
3. Participation and engagement (10%)
4. Final Exam (40%)
1. Justice and Law. In this session, we will discuss the following questions: What is law? How is it related to justice? Raymond Wacks. 2015. Law: a Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press. Chapter 1.
2. Human Rights and Law. In this session, we will discuss the following questions: What are human rights? How are they shaped by law? Andrew Clapham. 2015. Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press. Chapter 1.
3. The Search for Justice through Law. In this session, we will discuss how criminal law/punish became central to the protection of human rights.Engle, Karen. 2015. Anti-Impunity And The Turn To Criminal Law In Human Rights. Cornell Law Review 100 (5) 10
4. Law and War/Peace. In this session, we will discuss the following questions: What is transitional justice? What does it respond to?Turner, Catherine. 2017. Violence, Law and the Impossibility of Transitional Justice. Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2017. C