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Post Transitional Justice: Human Rights Trials in Chile and El Salvador

Introduces the concept of ‘post-transitional justice’, subsequently taken up by other scholars. This substantial analytical and empirical revisiting of Latin America argues that early past atrocity accounting was unduly state-centric, pessimistic about justice, and neglectful of non-state agency. It proposes a tripartite actor-structure-mobilisation framing to explicate national processes while identifying explanatory variables with comparative predictive potential. Sited at the intersection of law and politics, this interdisciplinary work’s exhaustive fieldwork base - including over 300 interviews - add rigour and originality to the core argument that national, regional and international agency increasingly favours a shift from impunity toward accountability over time.