Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Part one: Overview : Transitional justice globalized -- Part two: Roots: The universal and the particular in international criminal justice -- Human rights in transition: transitional justice genealogy -- Bringing the Messiah through the law -- Transitional justice as liberal narrative -- Part four: Conflict, transition, and the rule of law: The law and politics of contemporary transition justice -- Rethinking jus post bellum in an age of global transitional justice:engaging with Michael Walzer and
Larry May -- The alien tort and the global rule of law -- Transitional justice and the transformation of constitutionalism.