Transitional justice represents itself as both a discourse and practice that exists primarily to support victims of human rights violations and gains its moral legitimacy from the fact that victims are deserving and the claim that transitional justice has the aim of acknowledging victims and providing redress. Here, this claim is interrogated in the light of a practice that actually appears to ...

The concept of legal pluralism has been used widely in scholarship to draw attention the existence multiple orders. Scholars have relied upon it avoid ideology centralism, counter colonialism, and highlight neglect Indigenous laws. These are ameliorative approaches, which aim expand law for particular purposes. But is not clear that they help explain what does. In this article, I contrast these...

one of the main debates in the realm of western political thought which, one dare say, evolved simultaneously with the rise of man's political thought and is still evolving, is a historical debate on virtue and freedom. this study seeks to trace and highlight the main characteristics of each of these two sets of political theories, virtue-centered and freedom-oriented, in the history of we...

Τhis article presents the basic similarities and differences between Political Realism of Niccolò Machiavelli in 15th century A.D., i.e. during Renaissance Europe, Chinese Legalism Han Fei 3rd B.C., Warring States period. It could be supported that share numerous elements bring them closer rather than apart. The fundamental works written by main representatives these two political doctrines, na...