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__Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law__ addresses the importance of judicial accountability in transitional justice processes. Despite a general consensus that the judiciary plays an important role in contemporary governance, accountability for the judicial role in formerly authoritarian societies remains largely elided and under-researched. Hakeem O. Yusuf argues that the purview of transitional justice mechanisms should, as a matter of policy, be extended to scrutiny of the judicial role in the past. Through a critical comparative approach that cuts through the transitioning experiences of post-authoritarian and post-conflict polities in Latin America, Asia, Europe and Africa, the book focuses specifically on Nigeria. It demonstrates that public accountability of the judiciary through the mechanism of a truth-seeking process is a necessary component in securing comprehensive accountability for the judicial role in the past. __Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law__ further shows that an across-the-board transformation of state institutions – an important aspiration of transitional processes – is virtually impossible withou
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hakeem O. Yusuf
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786612586408
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Law, Political Science