The idea of transitional justice in the legal thought of Ruti Teitel and Carlos Santiago Nino
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https://doi.org/10.46502/issn.2792-3681/2025.8.12Keywords:
Carlos Santiago Nino, Ruti Teitel, transitional justice, comparative law, legal debateAbstract
Although transitional justice is the result of the contributions of multiple authors and concrete historical experiences, the works of Ruti Teitel and Carlos Santiago Nino, due to the relevance of their theoretical contributions, acquire a foundational character for the study of transitional justice as a discipline that combines a diversity of knowledge. Therefore, the objective of this research was to reinterpret, from a hermeneutic and critical perspective, the main ideas on transitional justice present in the works of Ruti Teitel and Carlos Nino, comparing their theoretical and methodological approaches in the context of political processes of change. The conclusions highlight that Teitel and Nino's work provides valuable conceptual tools for this evolving field of study, especially about the dynamic relationship between law and politics during periods of change. Their contributions suggest that the transitional justice of the future should incorporate more sophisticated mechanisms of citizen participation and normative frameworks that overcome the traditional dichotomy between retributive and restorative justice.
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