International Law and Transitional Governance

Emmanuel De Groof works in diplomacy for the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and remains active in academia as an associate researcher at the University of Edinburgh, a guest lecturer at the University of Maastricht, and a visiting professor at the University of Kigali. He is author of State Renaissance for Peace – Transitional Governance under International Law (2020). Micha Wiebusch is a senior legal officer at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Arusha, Tanzania. He is also an associate research fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), an associate researcher at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp, and a research fellow at SOAS, University of London, School of Law.

Preface 1. Introduction Emmanuel De Groof and Micha Wiebusch 2. The Features of Transitional Governance Emmanuel De Groof and Micha Wiebusch 3. Contextualizing Conflict-Related Transitional Governance Since 1989 Adam Day and David M. Malone 4. Constituting Transitions: Predicting Unpredictability Christine Bell and Robert A. Forster 5. No Strings Attached? Constraints on External Advice in Internationalized Constitution-Making Sumit Bisarya 6. The gap between international legitimacy and legality of transitional regimes Noam Wiener 7. Legitimizing transitional authorities through the international law of self-determination Matthew Saul 8. The End(s) of Transition Zinaida Miller 9. The Ambitions and Traumas of Transitional Governance: Expelling Colonialism, Replicating Colonialism Vasuki Nesiah 10. The Future(s) of Transitional Governance and International Law Emmanuel De Groof and Micha Wiebusch