Impact of Human Rights Prosecutions (eBook)

New perspectives on human rights prosecutions invarious regional contextsHuman rightsprosecutions are the most prominent mechanisms that victims demand to obtainaccountability. Dealing with a legacy of gross human rights violations presentsopportunities to enhance the right to justice and promote a more equalapplication of criminal law, a fundamental condition for a more substantivedemocracy in societies. This book seeks to analyse the impact, advances, anddifficulties of prosecuting perpetrators of mass atrocities at national andinternational levels. What role does criminal justice play in redressingvictims wrongs, guaranteeing the non-repetition of mass atrocities, andattempting to overcome the damage caused by systematic human rights violations?This volume addresses critical issues in the field of human rights prosecutionby drawing on the experiences of a variety of post-conflict and authoritariancountries covering three world regions. Contributing authors cover prosecutionsin post-Nazi Germany, post-Communist Romania, and transnational legalcomplaints by victims of the Franco dictatorship, as well as domestic andthird-country prosecutions for human rights violations in the pioneering SouthAmerican countries of Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay, prosecutions in Darfurand Kenya, and the work of the International Criminal Court. The Impact of Human Rights Prosecutions offers insights into the difficulties human rights trialsface in different contexts and regions, and also illustrates the development ofthese legal procedures over time. The volume will be of interest to humanrights scholars as well as legal practitioners, participants, justice systemactors, and policy makers.Contributors: Aleida Assmann (University ofKonstanz), Kristine Avram (Philipps University of Marburg), Ulrike Capdepon(University of Konstanz), Rosario Figari Layus (Justus Liebig University ofGiessen), Boris Hau (Diego Portales University), Iris Jave (Pontifical CatholicUniversity), Geoffrey Lugano (Kenyatta University), Joachim J. Savelsberg(University of Minnesota), Debbie Sharnak (Rowan University), Valeria Vegh Weis(Free University of Berlin), Annette Weinke (Friedrich-Schiller UniversityJena)This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).