Reframing Transitional Justice: Innovations, Boundaries, and Refractions

Reframing Transitional Justice: Innovations, Boundaries, and Refractions was published in 2026 by Routledge and was edited by Mark A. Drumbl and Kirsten J. Fisher.

This volume challenges the simplicity, predestination, and self-evident nature of contemporary narratives of transitional justice. It focuses on technological innovations and human memory, the boundaries of what conduct transitional justice fruitfully can address and redress (and when to let go and move on), and how the field refracts concerns such as democratic backsliding. The volume brings together sixteen authors from a diversity of disciplines and experiences. It formed the basis of a dynamic symposium on Opinio Juris in August 2026.

Bio

Mark A. Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor and Director of the Transnational Law Institute at Washington and Lee University. A Canadian national, he has held visiting appointments and taught at law schools around the world, including Queen’s University Belfast, the University of Oxford (University College), the Free University of Amsterdam, the University of Melbourne, the University of Ottawa, Masaryk University (Czechia), and John Cabot University in Rome.

His work has been relied upon by national and international courts. He has served as defense counsel in Rwandan genocide trials, co-authored an amicus brief to the International Criminal Court in the Ongwen case, and acted as an expert in litigation involving international terrorism. He has also worked with the United Nations on matters concerning child soldiers and with the UN Human Rights Council in drafting a global convention to criminalize racist hate speech.

His publications include Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law (Cambridge, 2007), Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy (Oxford, 2012), and Informers Up Close: Stories from Communist Prague (Oxford, 2024, with Barbora Holá). He has also co-edited several volumes, including Research Handbook of Child Soldiers (Elgar, 2019), Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions (Brill, 2024), Children and Violence (Routledge, 2024), The Character of International Law (Bloomsbury, 2025), and Reframing Transitional Justice (Routledge, 2026). He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Criminal Law Review.

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