Claire Garbett

Claire’s current research interests include transitional justice, humanitarian law, the legal shaping of victim identities, national criminal prosecutions of war crimes, victim participation and notions of violence and victimisation in conflict situations.

This research builds on Claire’s doctorate, ‘War and its Witnesses: International Criminal Justice and the Legal Recognition of Civilian Victims’, which was awarded in 2009. Claire’s research on transitional justice and humanitarian law has been published in the International Journal of Human Rights (2012), Human Rights Review (2011), and the Human Rights Law Review (2010). Her research has also been accepted and is forthcoming in the International Journal of Law in Context and the edited collection Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press).

Claire is the Project Co-ordinator and Researcher on the European Research Council funded project ‘Bosnian Bones, Spanish Ghosts: ‘Transitional Justice’ and the Legal Shaping of Memory after Two Modern Conflicts’ with Sari Wastell as principle investigator.

‘The Truth and the Trial: Victim Participation at the International Criminal Court’, in draft for submission to the Contemporary Justice Review, 2012.

‘The Legal Regulation of Crimes against POWs: A Comparative Analysis of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Bosnian War Crimes Chamber’, Human Rights Law Review, under review, 2012.

‘The Concept of the Civilian: Legal Recognition, Adjudication and the Trials of International Criminal Justice’, International Journal of Law in Context, accepted, forthcoming 2012.

‘Court Trials for Redress’ in Stan, Lavinia and Nedelsky, Nadya (eds) Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, accepted, forthcoming 2012.

‘The Legal Representation of the Civilian and Military Casualties of Contemporary Armed Conflicts: Unlawful Victimisation, its Victims and their Visibility at the ICTY’, The International Journal of Human Rights, Published Online, DOI 10.1080/13642987.2011.652367, 2012.

‘Transitional Justice and ‘National Ownership’: An Assessment of the Institutional Development of the War Crimes Chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina’, Human Rights Review, Published Online, DOI 10.1007/s12142-011-0209-8, 2011.

‘Localising Criminal Justice: An Overview of National Prosecutions at the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina’, Human Rights Law Review 10(3): 558-568, 2010.

‘Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law’, Feminist Review 85(1): 147-149, 2007.

‘Justice, Community, Atrocity’, Review Essay of Stover, Eric and Weinstein, Harvey (eds) My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity. Democratiya 1, Summer 2005.