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"""An absolutely fascinating piece of work - what I believe to be a true milestone in legal scholarship of transitional justice, as well as in our understanding of Burundi"" Peter Uvin, Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University ""Stones Left Unturned offers an extensive and in-depth academic analysis on the transitional justice process in Burundi - a subject unfortunately little explored. Not only does it adopt a thorough review of the historical context, thus casting a multidisciplinary light on the legal situation, but it explores an extremely interesting approach of domestic implementation of transitional justice through constitutional adjudication. While interesting academically, this comprehensive study has also proven extremely useful in TRIAL's fieldwork in Burundi."" Jean-Rene Oettli in 2011 TRIAL (24) 20 ""This is a rare work of scholarship that achieves a genuine integration between legal and political analysis. [the] the writing is fluid, clear, and solidly footnoted. The style is argumentative and accessible to the non-specialist reader. [The book] makes a distinctive contribution to a new generation of transitional justice research, which is empirical and problem-driven, having evolved from its early roots in ethical or legal analyses, but which still stops short of proposing or evaluating policy solutions. In exemplary fashion, Vandeginste assesses his proposed solution critically, drawing organically on his initial analysis of the problem. [...] The richly detailed exploration of Burundi's transitional justice law and policy in the aftermath of each cycle of political violence, and the use of Constitutional Court case law as source material, also make this study an outstanding original contribution to the scholarship on law and politics in Burundi."" Anuradha Chakravarty in 2012 African Affairs 507 ""... a remarkably detailed work that will serve as a standard reference-work in the legal field for the next few decades."" Peter Ventevogel, in 2012 Intervention 282"

An absolutely fascinating piece of work - what I believe to be a true milestone in legal scholarship of transitional justice, as well as in our understanding of Burundi Peter Uvin, Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University Stones Left Unturned offers an extensive and in-depth academic analysis on the transitional justice process in Burundi - a subject unfortunately little explored. Not only does it adopt a thorough review of the historical context, thus casting a multidisciplinary light on the legal situation, but it explores an extremely interesting approach of domestic implementation of transitional justice through constitutional adjudication. While interesting academically, this comprehensive study has also proven extremely useful in TRIAL's fieldwork in Burundi. Jean-Rene Oettli in 2011 TRIAL (24) 20 This is a rare work of scholarship that achieves a genuine integration between legal and political analysis. [the] the writing is fluid, clear, and solidly footnoted. The style is argumentative and accessible to the non-specialist reader. [The book] makes a distinctive contribution to a new generation of transitional justice research, which is empirical and problem-driven, having evolved from its early roots in ethical or legal analyses, but which still stops short of proposing or evaluating policy solutions. In exemplary fashion, Vandeginste assesses his proposed solution critically, drawing organically on his initial analysis of the problem. [...] The richly detailed exploration of Burundi's transitional justice law and policy in the aftermath of each cycle of political violence, and the use of Constitutional Court case law as source material, also make this study an outstanding original contribution to the scholarship on law and politics in Burundi. Anuradha Chakravarty in 2012 African Affairs 507 ... a remarkably detailed work that will serve as a standard reference-work in the legal field for the next few decades. Peter Ventevogel, in 2012 Intervention 282

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Stef Vandeginste is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He is a research associate of the Centre for the Study of the Great Lakes Region of Africa (Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp) and co-editor of the yearbook L'Afrique des Grands Lacs.

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