Transitional Justice, Distributive Justice, and Transformative Constitutionalism

David Bilchitz is Professor of Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Law at the University of Johannesburg and Professor of Law at the University of Reading. He is also Director of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC). He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa and Vice-President of the International Association of Constitutional Law. In 2017, he was awarded a Georg Forster research fellowship from the Von Humboldt Foundation. He publishes widely on constitutional law and fundamental rights including his latest monograph Fundamental Rights and the Legal Obligations of Business (2022). Raisa Cachalia is an LLD Candidate at the University of Stellenbosch and a Research Associate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Johannesburg. Her research interests include administrative law and constitutional law. She is an editor at the Constitutional Court Review, a journal dedicated to the judgments of South Africa's highest court.

1: David Bilchitz and Raisa Cachalia: Developing a Conceptual Framework for Global South Comparisons: Colombian and South African Contributions
PART I: INNOVATIVE WAYS OF CONCEIVING AND IMPLEMENTING TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
Theme 1: Re-Conceiving Reconciliation as Relationships: the Role of African and Latin American Values
2: Thaddeus Metz: The Role of Economic Goods in National Reconciliation: Evaluating South Africa and Colombia
3: Nathalia Elena Bautista Pizarro: Building Peace and Restoring Law upon the Ethos: A Comparison between South Africa and Colombia
4: Thaddeus Metz and Nathalia Elena Bautista Pizarro: Joint Reflection - Economic Goods and Communitarian Values
Theme 2: Art and Transitional Justice
5: Kim Berman and Michelle LeBaron: Aesthetic Negotiation and Artefactual Agency: Key Processes for Symbolic Repair in Transitional Justice
6: Yolanda Sierra León: Aesthetic Litigation as a Mechanism for Building the Truth in the Colombian Truth Commission
7: Kim Berman, Michelle LeBaron, and Yolanda Sierra León: Joint Reflection - How Do Arts Function in Symbolic Reparation? A Comparative Reflection Between Colombia and South Africa
Theme 3: History, Museums and Transitional Justice
8: Emilia Potenza and Adrienne van den Heever: Journey to a New Space: The Apartheid Museum's Truth and Reconciliation Exhibition within the Context of Restorative and Transitional Justice
9: Nancy Rocio Rueda Esteban: Exploring Visitor Expectations and Experiences of Conflict and Transitional Justice Exhibitions in Bogota, Colombia
10: Emilia Potenza, Adrienne van den Heever, and Nancy Rocío Rueda Esteban: Joint Reflection - Journey to a New Space: A Comparative Reflection of Museum Exhibitions within the Context of Restorative and Transitional Justice
PART II: SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRANSITIONAL AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
Theme 4: The Role of History in Socio-Economic Rights Jurisprudence: Linking Transitional and Distributive Justice
11: David Bilchitz: Does History Make a Difference? Exploring the Role of History in the Interpretation of Socio-Economic Rights
12: Magdalena Ines Correa Henao: Historical Injustice and Socio-Economic Rights in Colombia Constitutional Jurisprudence: The Case of Victims of Forced Displacement
13: David Bilchitz and Magdalena Ines Correa Henao: Joint reflection - The Difference History Makes: Comparative Reflections on Socio-Economic Rights and Historical Consciousness in South Africa and Colombia
Theme 5: Collective Mechanisms for the Advancement of Socio-Economic Rights
14: Meghan Finn: Class Actions and the Scarce Resource of the Law
15: Andres Mauricio Gutierrez Beltran: Forced Displacement and Social Change: Light and Shadows in the Implementation of the Judgment T-025 of 2004
16: Meghan Finn and Andrés Mauricio Gutiérrez Beltrán: Joint reflection - Litigating for a Collective: Structural Judgments and Class Actions in Colombia and South Africa
PART III: THE ROLE OF NOVEL LEGAL STRUCTURES IN REALISING TRANSITIONAL AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
Theme 6: Indigenous Peoples and Transitional Justice
17: Sindiso Mnisi Weeks: Twenty-five Years of Democracy: The Consequences of South Africa's Post-Apartheid Constitution and Political Economy for Traditional Peoples
18: Diana Carolina Rivera Drago and Filipo Ernesto Burgos Guzman: Evaluating the Impact of the Peace Agreement on the Indigenous Peoples of Colombia: Land Rights and Compensation
19: Sindiso Mnisi Weeks and Diana Carolina Rivera Dragos: Joint reflection - The South African and Colombian 'Peace Agreements': Restoration of Rights or Continuing Difficulties for Indigenous Peoples?
Theme 7: Procedural Justice, the Law and Transitional Justice
20: Raisa Cachalia: Exploring the Relationship between Violent Protest and Procedural Injustice in South Africa's Democratic Transition
21: Julián Andrés Pimiento Echeverri and Irit Milkes: Beyond Democracy: Meaningful Public Participation as a New Approach to Public Decision-Making in the Context of Colombia's Transitional Justice Process
22: Raisa Cachalia and Irit Milkes: Joint reflection - Comparative Reflections on Transitional Justice and Political Inclusion in South Africa and Colombia
Theme 8: The Role of International Law in Advancing Transitional Justice
23: Mispa Roux: South Africa and the International Criminal Court: Perpetuating the Legacy of Overlooking the Ergo Omnes Obligation to Prosecute International Crimes by Prioritising Peace
24: Natalia Silva Santaularia: Colombia and the International Criminal Court: A Case of Positive Complementarity in Transitional Justice Contexts
25: Mispa Roux and Natalia Silva Santaularia: Joint reflection - South Africa and Colombia as Transitional Justice Societies