Justice During and After Conflict (M6045)

15 credits, Level 6

Spring teaching

Transitional justice broadly covers the many forms of accountability that have been developed to address mass atrocities during and after conflict.

Examples of this are:

• criminal trials before international criminal courts and domestic courts
• customary collective reconciliation processes (e.g. Gacaca trials in Rwanda)
• Truth Commissions (e.g. South Africa)
• Peoples’ Tribunals (e.g. Uighur Tribunal, London) or fact-finding commissions (e.g. Int Commission for Syria).

On this module, you'll develop your knowledge and understanding of:

• relevant substantive crimes (i.e. conceptually in law)
• relevant institutional processes
• the academic literature within the field of transitional justice studies (as broadly understood).

There will be topics within the module that may be more heavily drawn from either transitional justice or international criminal law fields or both.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2023/24. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Courses

This module is offered on the following courses:

• Law (Graduate Entry) LLB
• Law LLB
• Law with American Studies (with a study abroad year) LLB
• Law with Business and Management LLB
• Law with Criminology LLB
• Law with International Relations LLB
• Law with Politics LLB
• Law with Psychology LLB
• Law with a Language LLB