Transitional Justice as a Post-Revolution Constitutional Arrangement: A Law and Economics Approach


Autoria(s): Muhammad Rashwan, Eman <1990>
Contribuinte(s)

Voigt, Stefan

Data(s)

20/05/2022

31/12/1969

Resumo

This dissertation addresses the timely questions of transitional justice (TJ) in the aftermath of revolutions against autocratic regimes, dealing with TJ as a constitutional arrangement through the lenses of constitutional economics. After an introductory chapter, chapter 2 deals with why nations rarely adopt meaningful TJ processes in the first place, it then explains the limitations of civil society as the arbiter, facilitator, and enforcer of TJ policies. Chapter 3 tackles the question of which mechanisms to choose? It uses the UN Guidelines on TJ that sets five principal TJ mechanisms. It provides a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of each mechanism and suggests policy implications accordingly. The CBA inspires chapter 4 analysis, suggesting a tradeoff between restrictive fair trial standards under constitutional laws and justice considerations. The tradeoff explains the suggested efficiency of the balanced TJ approaches that combine trials and amnesties. This approach is used for the case study analysis of TJ in Tunisia after the 2011 revolution in chapter 5. The chapter presents the first index of TJ mechanisms in Tunisia through novel data collected by the author. It shows an ultimate TJ design that ended with a modest harvest in the application. The lack of cooperation between the Tunisian parties, added to the absence of transparency in many TJ measures, threatens any possible positive outcomes of the partial TJ process. It is also alarming regarding constitutional compliance in a system that – until recently - was considered the only democracy in the Arab region. Chapter 6 is a summary

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http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/10450/1/Frontespizio%20%2B%20Manuscript.pdf

urn:nbn:it:unibo-29024

Muhammad Rashwan, Eman (2022) Transitional Justice as a Post-Revolution Constitutional Arrangement: A Law and Economics Approach, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Law and economics <http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/view/dottorati/DOT388/>, 32 Ciclo.

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en

Publicador

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

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http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/10450/

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Palavras-Chave #SECS-P/03 Scienza delle finanze
Tipo

Doctoral Thesis

PeerReviewed