Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law

Hakeem O. Yusuf

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Routledge
28 April 2010

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Armed conflict; Warfare & defence; Jurisprudence & general issues; Comparative law; International criminal law; Judicial powers

Series: Transitional Justice

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 without incorporating the third branch of government, the judiciary, into the accountability process.

By: Hakeem O. Yusuf
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9780415575355
ISBN 10: 0415575354
Series: Transitional Justice
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 28 April 2010
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. The Case for Judicial Accountability in Transitions 2. Truth, Transition, and Accountability of the Judiciary 3. Political Change and Judicial Reform: An International and Comparative Perspective 4. Judicial Accountability in Political Transitions: The Nigerian Context 5. Rights, the Judiciary and Constitutionalism in Transitions 6. Transition and the Judicialization of Politics: Dialectics of a Phenomenon 7. Courts to the Rescue? The Judicialization of Politics in Nigeria. Conclusion

Hakeem O. Yusuf is a lecturer in Law at Queen's University, Belfast.

Reviews for Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law

'In less than 200 pages, the author covers general questions of judicial accountability and the judicialisation of politics (Chapters 1 and 6); applies these questions to transitional contexts (Chapters 3 and 5); analyzes the specifics of judicial accountability in the Nigerian case (Chapters 4 and 7) and advances an analysis about the appropriateness of truth commissions for delivering judicial accountability (Chapter 2). In this respect, the book is a tour de force' - Catherine O'Rourke, University of Ulster, UK for Social & Legal Studies (2013)