Mind the gap - reparation from theory to practice

The Essex Transitional Justice Network welcomes Professor Clara Sandoval on Friday 10 May. She will be giving a lecture in room EBS.2.34 from 3 - 5pm, followed by a reception of drinks and canapes, offering a chance to network with guests.

The lecture will consider how to mend the gap between the theory and practice of reparation in conflict settings so that reparation can be truly implemented and transform the lives of victims, their families and their communities.

Speaker Bio:

Clara Sandoval is a Professor at the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex (currently on leave), a founding member of the Essex Transitional Justice Network at Essex, and the Director of Programmes at the Global Survivors Fund, a multistakeholder Fund established by Dr Mukwege and Nadia Murat, Nobel Peace Prize laureates (2018) to enable reparation for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.

She is an expert in transitional justice, the Inter-American System of Human Rights, reparations, and implementation of human rights orders. She enjoys both the theory and practice of human rights law and transitional justice. Besides her academic work, she has engaged in international litigation, has acted as expert on reparations before the International Criminal Court and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and had worked as a consultant for the UN, the ICC, REDRESS and others.

Professor Sandoval has published widely on transitional justice, the Interamerican system of human rights and the right to reparation. She is the co-author of the book Reparations for Victims of Armed Conflicts, (Third volume of the Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War, edited by Anne Peters and Christian Marxsen, CUP, 2020) and of the book Doctrine, Practice, and Advocacy in the Inter-American Human Rights System (OUP, 2019).

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