Lawyers and Transitional Justice

• In Event: International Courts, Prisons, and Restorative Justice

Abstract

This roundtable will examine the role played by lawyers as social, political and moral (as well as legal) actors in conflicted societies. It will drawn upon ongoing research on the experiences of lawyers in Israel,Palestine, South Africa, Chile, Cambodia, Tunisia and Northern Ireland. The themes discussed will include the role of lawyers in civil society movements; how they shaped local and international understandings of the ‘rule of law; and the extent to which the sociology of lawyering is different or 'exceptional' in conflicted or transitional contexts compared to settled democracies.

Authors

• Kieran Patrick McEvoy, Queen's University Belfast

• Ron Dudai, Hebrew University, Israel

• Louise Mallinder, Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster