well thank you for such a warm welcome and it's really

nice to be here and I like this part of the world of course The Hague

is a little away but I spent a lot of my career there

and I'm fortunate enough to come to Nuremberg a couple times a year as I'm on the

board of the Nuremberg Principles Academy what I wanted to

talk about tonight Christoph had offered a couple of suggestions

I just finished the long article on transitional justice in the

21st century which is being published by Oxford University Press probably

sometime next year and I thought well I've already written this article

why didn't I present it and I'd forgotten how long it was so it's

a 60 or 70 pages so you're going to get a snapshot of the article I'm

not gonna read 70 pages and keep you here all night

what I thought I would do is talking about transitional justice and

where transitional justice is in the 21st century and I should also underline

as has been said I spent much of my career also working

on international criminal justice has been 9 years of the Yugoslavia tribunal was

a deputy prosecutor the Khmer Rouge trials it was mentioned in the

Lebanon tribunal I worked pretty extensively on the international criminal

court as well but I think this issue of transitional justice and criminal

justice is a very important one and so I'll talk about that in more

detail I'm going to cover like

6 or 7 points and I thought I would outline them for you briefly and then try to

talk about them and then I hope somebody will keep me on time because

I have the tendency to use too much time because I like to have a

few questions and a bit of discussion

so in terms of transitional justice in the 21st century the 6

or 7 things that I be talking about and I don't cover them all make sure

to send the article around but what is transitional justice

for then the ageless question of the transitional justice and criminal justice and

I think that's probably an issue that interest all of you transitional justice and

victims something I call transitional justice in checking

the box which I'll explain in more detail transitional

justice and gender and then social economic rights and transitional justice

and then something called donors' justice i probably won't cover all of that but

that's what is in this article that's been published

the idea of transitional justice really emerged in the

1980s 1990s it's very much a

20th-century development in the law it

is interesting as you look back some scholars say that

such as John Elster so as transitional justice actually emerged with

the ancient Greeks and he says that in the French restoration and the

French revolution there were forms of transitional justice I think that's very interesting but

I think I would bark the emerge of transitional justice

at least as a term and a concept coming out

of from the academic point of view with Neil Kritz's

book with a foreword by Nelson Mandela which was called transitional justice accidents

along set of books that some of you may have seen and a lot of the

leading scholars in the field contributed to it but it creates a

number of problems that I think we have to think about as we go forward because

the term transition transition from what and