Lawyers in Conflict and Transition

Auteur

Kieran McEvoy is Professor of Law and Transitional Justice at Queen's University Belfast. He is author or editor of six books on conflict and transition. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and has been a human rights activist for over three decades.

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Studies what lawyers do in challenging contexts of conflict, authoritarianism, and the transition from violence.

Résumé
This book is valuable for law, sociology, and transitional justice researchers and postgraduate students interested in themes including cause lawyering, the sociology of the professions, the legal profession, gender and the law, the role of law in transition, peace negotiations, truth recovery, amnesties, strategic litigation, and legal ethics.