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Autore: | Yusuf Hakeem |
Titolo: | Transitional justice, judicial accountability and the rule of law / / Hakeem O. Yusuf |
Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina: | 347.669 |
Soggetto topico: | Law reform - Nigeria |
Justice, Administration of - Nigeria | |
Rule of law - Nigeria | |
Transitional justice - Nigeria | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | "A GlassHouse book". |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-199) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | The case for judicial accountability in transitions -- Truth, transition, and accountability of the judiciary -- Political change and judicial reform : an international and comparative -- Perspective -- Judicial accountability in political transitions : the Nigerian context -- Rights, the judiciary, and constitutionalism in transitions -- Transition and the judicialization of politics : dialectics of a phenomenon -- Courts to the rescue? : the judicialization of politics in Nigeria. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 thro |
Titolo autorizzato: | Transitional justice, judicial accountability and the rule of law |
ISBN: | 1-136-97163-7 |
1-136-97164-5 | |
1-282-58640-8 | |
9786612586408 | |
0-203-85175-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910458905703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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