Natalie R. Davidson (Tel-Aviv University)

American Transitional Justice

Writing Cold War History in Human Rights Litigation

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Produktbeschreibung

Revisits two seminal human rights cases in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute, Filartiga and Marcos, exploring how these lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc. Essential reading for scholars of international law, politics, social movements, human rights, globalization, history and memory.

Produktdetails

• Human Rights in History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 334g
• ISBN-13: 9781108702553
• ISBN-10: 1108702554
• Artikelnr.: 64771845

Autorenporträt

Natalie Davidson is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Tel-Aviv University. She has published about Alien Tort Statute litigation, feminist interventions in international law, the prohibition of torture, and interdisciplinary methodology.

Inhaltsangabe

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.