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Publications on Justice and Politics

Thai Justice

Duncan McCargo, ‘Punitive Processes: Judging in Thai lower criminal courts', Asian Journal of Law and Society, 8, 1, 2021.

Duncan McCargo, ‘The 1991–1992 Judicial Crisis: Personalities or Principles?’ in Andrew Harding and Munin Pongsapan (eds), Thai Legal History: From Traditional to Modern Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 252–64.

Duncan McCargo, Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand, Ithaca NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2019 (Studies of The Weatherhead East Asian Institute), 266pp.

Duncan McCargo, ‘Sense and Sensibility: crafting tales about the police’, in Didier Fassin, (ed.) Writing the World of Policing: The difference ethnography makes, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017, pp. 207–224.

Duncan McCargo and Peeradej Tanruangporn, ‘Branding Dissent: Nitirat, Thailand’s enlightened jurists’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 45, 3, 2015: 419–42.

Duncan McCargo (special issue editor), ‘Rethinking Thai Justice’, Asian Studies Review, 39, 1, March 2015.

Duncan McCargo, 'Readings on Thai Justice’, Asian Studies Review, 39, 1, 2015: 23–37.

Duncan McCargo, ‘Competing Notions of Judicialization in Thailand’, Contemporary Southeast Asia, 36, 3, 2014: 417–41 (also published in Chinese translation).

Duncan McCargo, ‘Against Wishful Scholarship: the importance of Engel’, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 19, 2, 2012: 489–93.

Transitional Justice

Duncan McCargo and Dishani Senaratne, ‘Victor’s Memory: Sri Lanka’s post-war memoryscape in comparative perspective’, Conflict, Security & Development, 20, 1, 2020: 97–113.

Duncan McCargo, ‘Transitional Justice and Its Discontents’, Journal of Democracy, 26, 2, April 2015: 5–20.

Duncan McCargo and Naruemon Thabchumpon, ‘Wreck/Conciliation: the politics of truth commissions in Thailand’, Journal of East Asian Studies, 14, 3, 2014: 377–404.

Duncan McCargo, ‘Politics by Other Means? The virtual trials of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal’, International Affairs, 87, 3, 2011: 613–627.

Duncan McCargo, ‘Thailand’s National Reconciliation Commission: a flawed response to the Southern Conflict’, Global Change, Peace and Security, 22, 1, February 2010: 75–91.