American Transitional Justice: Writing Cold War History in Human Rights Litigation

ISBN-13: 9781108702553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 218 str.

Natalie R. (Tel-Aviv University) Davidson

Opis

Explores how two landmark transnational human rights lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc.

Recenzje

'To what extent has America been held accountable for its conduct abroad during the Cold War? Read this book for an insightful interdisciplinary inquiry into the pursuit of justice through human rights litigation.' Ruti Teitel, Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School

Spis treści

1. Introduction. Revisiting the Gilded Age of transnational human rights litigation in US courts; 2. Alien tort statute litigation in legal practice and the legal imagination; 3. 'Foreign torture, American justice': Filártiga in the United States; 4. Filártiga in Paraguay; 5. Narrating the Marcos regime in US courts; 6. The Marcos case and transitional justice in the Philippines; 7. Conclusion.