This volume analyses the legal grounds, premises and extent of pecuniary compensation for violations of human rights in national legal systems. The scope of comparison includes liability regimes in general and in detail, the correlation between pecuniary remedies available under international law and under domestic law and special (alternative) compensation systems. All sources of human rights violations are embraced, including historical injustices and systematical and gross violations.

The book is a collection of nineteen contributions written by public international law, international...