🎙 How do societies deal with difficult pasts? Is justice only about punishment, or can it also involve truth, memory, and reconciliation? In this episode of Podcastocracy, we speak with Dr Agata Fijalkowski is a Reader in Law. Her research interests focus on the dispensation and the maladministration of justice post-WW2, the development of legal principles in international criminal law, and defence lawyers and lawyering strategies during authoritarian rule. She is writes about law and film. Dr Fijalkowski is an interdisciplinary scholar and engages with archival materials in her work. She has worked at archives in Albania, Germany, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the UK. We discuss different models of justice after mass violence, the relationship between law and collective memory, the overlooked role of defence lawyers in war crimes trials, and what post-war experiences in Central and Eastern Europe can teach us about contemporary challenges, from historical memory disputes to the war in Ukraine. 💬 Topics include: ▪ Transitional justice and reconciliation ▪ Law, memory, and post-authoritarian societies ▪ Defence lawyers in post-war trials ▪ Truth and Reconciliation Commissions ▪ Lessons for contemporary international justice Recommended publications:▪ Thijs Bouwknegt i Bart Nauta, „Klatka wyruszyła w poszukiwaniu ptaka: O polityce potępienia, odszkodowania i rekonwalescencji” (2023) 21 (1) Journal of International Criminal Justice 185-209▪ Güneş Daşli, Sprawiedliwość przejściowa bez transformacji (Springer 2026)▪ Mark A. Drumbl i Barbora Holá, Informers Up Close: Stories from Communist Prague (Oxford University Press 2024)▪ Kate Gibson, „Jak śpisz w nocy?” Reprezentowanie oskarżonych przed sądami międzynarodowymi” (2026) Journal of International Criminal Justice, mqag021, https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqag021▪ Carlos Gutiérrez Rodríguez, „Sprawiedliwość pamięci: lekcje z Kolumbii na temat tego, jak upamiętnienie może służyć sprawiedliwości w kontekstach przejściowych”, (2025) 19 (2) International Journal of Transitional Justice 333-351▪ Margaret Keck i Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders (Cornell University Press 1998)▪ Rachel Killean i Lauren Dempster, Green Transitional Justice (Routledge 2025)▪ Sarah Nouwen i Neha Jain (red.), Race and Transitional Justice (Oxford University Press 2026)▪ Sophie Rigney, „Zaczynasz czuć „Naprawdę sam”: obrońcy i narracje międzynarodowego prawa karnego w filmie (2018) 6 (1) London Review of International Law 97-123▪ Renee Christine Romano, Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America’s Civil Rights Murders (Harvard University Press 2017)Fiction:▪ Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter (Maclose Press 2020)▪ Daniel Kehlmann, The Director (Riverrun 2023)🎤 Host: Bartłomiej Małczyński, expert associate at the Institute for Public Policies and host of numerous podcast series and conferences. ________The CEMORY project is funded by the European Union. The views and opinions expressed by those involved in the project are theirs alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. The European Union and the European Commission are not responsible for them. #Podcastocracy #TransitionalJustice #InternationalLaw #CollectiveMemory #LegalHistory #Democracy #WorldwideDeliberations #Podcast #CEMORY