Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade : Remedying the 'Past'?

ISBN-13: 9780415619158 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 272 str.

Fernne Brennan; John Packer

Opis

'Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade' addresses how reparations might be obtained for the legacy of the trans Atlantic slave trade. This collection lends weight to the argument that liability is not extinguished on the death of the plaintiffs or perpetrators.

O autorze

Fernne Brennan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Essex. Her research focuses on reparations, discrimination law, human rights and criminal law. Her previous publications in the field include 'Race, Rights Reparations: Exploring a Reparations Framework for Addressing Trade Inequality’ in Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy (2008),and Capitalism and Human Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2006)

John Packer is Professor in the School of Law and Director of the Human Rights Centre. Prior to this, he was Coordinator of the global Initiative on Quiet Diplomacy and served as a consultant to several international organisations, governments and NGOs. He has been a Director of the Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, where he was previously Senior Legal Adviser, and he was a Human Rights Officer at the United Nations where he investigated serious violations. He is a member of a number of editorial boards of scholarly journals, and is an internationally recognised expert in the field of minority rights and conflict prevention