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With issue co-editors:

  • E. Tendayi Achiume, Alicia Miñana Professor of Law at the University of California/Los Angeles School of Law; 
  • Matiangai Sirleaf, Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law;

and multiple contributors to the issue and the Co-Editors-in-Chief of the journal.


This Special Issue explores the ways in which transitional justice has been complicit and even instrumental in the preservation and reification of racial injustice in practice and in theory. It considers what possibilities, if any, transitional justice has offered for undoing this injustice, focusing specifically on racial injustice borne of the transatlantic enslavement and trade in enslaved people, colonialism, and their contemporary legacies. Authors are from across disciplines and geographic regions and articles include diverse methods and perspectives as well as a Review Essay and a first ever Postscript by Matiangai Sirleaf that examines "Palestine as a Litmus Test."

Register for the Zoom webinar: tinyurl.com/IJTJ-June12