Following our annual business meeting at the 2015 ECPR General Conference in Montreal, a new Steering Committee has been formed for the Standing Group on Human Rights and Transitional Justice. Both Anja Mihr and Stefan Engert have stepped down after three years of committed work as co-convenors and co-founders of the Standing Group. Carlos Fernández Torne (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Briony Jones (University of Warwick) have now joined Julie Bernath (swisspeace and University of Basel) as co-convenors.