S.J. Quinney College of Law, Borchard Conference Room In recent decades a number of countries have emerged from long periods of repressive rule and civil conflict and have attempted the difficult transition to democracy, among them South Africa following the end of apartheid and present-day Egypt following the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.   Such transitional societies have enacted a range of measures to confront these legacies of violence, such as amnesty, criminal trials, truth commissions, and reparations.  This paper takes up…