TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS AND LEGAL ORDER

The transition periods from abusive regimes to democratic ones put into action, among others, mechanisms such as Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, non-judiciary instruments of transitional justice, through which generalised abuses committed in the recent past of a country are investigated. Legal...

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Main Author: Bianca Elena RADU
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Language:English
Published: Nicolae Titulescu University Publishing House 2023-06-01
Series:Challenges of the Knowledge Society
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description The transition periods from abusive regimes to democratic ones put into action, among others, mechanisms such as Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, non-judiciary instruments of transitional justice, through which generalised abuses committed in the recent past of a country are investigated. Legal order is considered an indispensable foundation in establishing a state and in maintaining and, respectively, consolidating democracy. Starting from the theoretical-explanatory model of law philosophy that places the human being at the centre of lawmakers’ preoccupations, the present paper intends to show, at least at the theoretical level, the connection between the founding/functioning of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and legal order. In the first part of the paper I will define legal order and the insoluble connection between it and judicial order. In the second part, I will explain the peculiarities of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions so as to show, in the last part, how the principles and their manner of functioning constitute the premises necessary for the configuration of the new rule of law, in societies marked by transition periods, as a result of experiencing systematic and generalised abuses. The paper has a heuristic value by showing, through the issue set forward, the concept of law as the art of good and equity – jus est are boni et aequi – promoted by Celsius.
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spelling doaj-art-f59f10a3687d4d31bc9cd2e1ce6bc1892025-01-02T06:03:40ZengNicolae Titulescu University Publishing HouseChallenges of the Knowledge Society2068-77962023-06-01161451459TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS AND LEGAL ORDERBianca Elena RADU0PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, „Nicolae Titulescu” University of Bucharest (e-mail:radu.biaelena@gmail.com).The transition periods from abusive regimes to democratic ones put into action, among others, mechanisms such as Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, non-judiciary instruments of transitional justice, through which generalised abuses committed in the recent past of a country are investigated. Legal order is considered an indispensable foundation in establishing a state and in maintaining and, respectively, consolidating democracy. Starting from the theoretical-explanatory model of law philosophy that places the human being at the centre of lawmakers’ preoccupations, the present paper intends to show, at least at the theoretical level, the connection between the founding/functioning of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and legal order. In the first part of the paper I will define legal order and the insoluble connection between it and judicial order. In the second part, I will explain the peculiarities of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions so as to show, in the last part, how the principles and their manner of functioning constitute the premises necessary for the configuration of the new rule of law, in societies marked by transition periods, as a result of experiencing systematic and generalised abuses. The paper has a heuristic value by showing, through the issue set forward, the concept of law as the art of good and equity – jus est are boni et aequi – promoted by Celsius.http://cks.univnt.ro/download/cks_2023_articles%252F3_CKS_2023_PUBLIC_LAW%252FCKS_2023_PUBLIC_LAW_028.pdftruth and reconciliation commissionstransitional justicelegal orderjudicial orderjudicial norm
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TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS AND LEGAL ORDER
Challenges of the Knowledge Society
truth and reconciliation commissions
transitional justice
legal order
judicial order
judicial norm
title TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS AND LEGAL ORDER
title_full TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS AND LEGAL ORDER
title_fullStr TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS AND LEGAL ORDER
title_full_unstemmed TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS AND LEGAL ORDER
title_short TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS AND LEGAL ORDER
title_sort truth and reconciliation commissions and legal order
topic truth and reconciliation commissions
transitional justice
legal order
judicial order
judicial norm
url http://cks.univnt.ro/download/cks_2023_articles%252F3_CKS_2023_PUBLIC_LAW%252FCKS_2023_PUBLIC_LAW_028.pdf
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