ICC Reparations, Child Soldier Reintegration, and Post-Conflict Social Reconstruction
A project looking at ICC Reparations, Child Soldier Reintegration, and Post-Conflict Social Reconstruction through the examination of a Ugandan Case Study in Theory and Policy.
This project is supported by SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) funding.
Theories of International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice
What is the normative justification for the use of international criminal law as a response to mass atrocity?
How do we understand the aims of transitional justice on a theoretical level and distinguish this pursuit from other forms of justice?
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Atrocity Trials and Ageism
Atrocity trials are more likely than other criminal trials to be in the business of prosecuting aged defendants. The prosecution of aged defendants, especially those with deteriorating health, seemingly presents new expressive challenges, where the value of judging and punishing past wrongs seems to conflict with sympathies for the elderly, the seeming futility of prosecuting individuals who are unlikely to serve much of a sentence if convicted, and the seeming cruelty of putting the frail/ill through lengthy and taxing trials. Drawing from philosophical literature on respect for persons and the morality of aged-based differential treatment, this project explores the expressive value of prosecutorial discretion in regards to older individuals.
Transitional Justice, International Criminal Law, and MENA (Middle East and North Africa)
Over the years, Dr. Fisher has been involved in a number of projects that that consider transitional justice and the use of international criminal law, the ICC specifically, in the Middle East and north Africa.
This research is not a unified project, but a number of related projects including:
International Criminal Lawfare Project
A project exploring the use and abuse of appeals to international criminal law (and particularly the International Criminal Court) as a means to influence ongoing conflict, looking at Uganda and Israel/Palestine.
Transitional Justice and the Arab Spring
in collaboration with Dr. Robert Stewart
Transitional Justice For and By Children and Childhoods
Collabroative Project with Dr. Caitlin Mollica, University of Newcastle, Australia
TJ Boundaries, Innovations, and Refractions
Collaborative Project with Professor Mark Drumbl , Washington & Lee University, Faculty of Law.