Transitional Justice as Ordinary Justice

Abstract

2 Although we focus on the Eastern European transitions after 1989, we will also draw upon material from the Southern European regime transitions of the mid-1970s and the Latin American transitions of the 1980s.For overviews of the latter two cases, see Linz, supra note 1. 3 Sanford Levinson makes a similar point about criticisms of truth commissions, which he fruitfully analyzes in light of the Supreme Court's due process jurisprudence.See Sanford Levinson, "Trials, Commissions, and Investigating Committees: The Elusive Search for Norms of Due Process," in Truth vs.