Frank Haldemann is an affiliated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Ethics and Human Rights of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He has taught transitional justice for over ten years, and co-directed the Geneva Academy Master in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law. His research on transitional justice has led him to New York, The Hague and South Africa. He is the co-editor (with Thomas Unger) of The United Nations Principles to Combat Impunity: A Commentary (2018) and has published in journals such as Ratio Juris, Cornell International Law Journal, WestEnd: Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung and Munera: rivista europea di cultura.
'Imbued by an innovative set of insights which are much needed by transitional justice scholars and practitioners, this book breathes complexity and imagination. It forces the reader to question fundamental orthodoxies about transitional justice theory and practice by listening to the difficult, uncomfortable realities of political and legal compromise in transitional settings. It embraces intricacy, does not give easy answers, and is quite simply the best transitional justice book I have read in a very long time.' Fionnuala Ni Aolain, University of Minnesota and The Queens University of Belfast 'This book is an invaluable companion to unlearning the dogmas sedimented into the normative common sense of 'transitional justice'. With intellectual dexterity and a pluralistic ethos, Haldemann unsettles the monism and rigid legalism that have accompanied the field's institutionalization, overstated its coherence, and denied its imbrication in a neo-imperial machinery of global governance.' Vasuki Nesiah, New York University