The Costs of Justice: Understanding How New Leaders Choose to Respond to Previous Rights Abuses Brian Grodsky, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UMBC Dr. Grodsky will discuss factors that impact on whether and how new elites pursue transitional justice policies (legal and symbolic acts designed to address past abuses) after a period of repression. The theoretical discussion will be applied to two cases of post-conflict states, Serbia and Poland. Thursday, February 16, 4pm Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor