The Impact of Human Rights Prosecutions

Ulrike Capdepon holds a PhD in political science and is a researcher and project coordinator at the Center for Cultural Inquiry (ZKF), University of Konstanz. Rosario Figari Layus is postdoctoral researcher in social sciences and lecturer at the Chair for Peace Studies, Faculty of Law, Justus Liebig University Giessen.

Prologue
Aleida Assmann
Introduction: Do Human Rights Trials Make a Difference after Conflict, Dictatorship and State-Sponsored Violence? Rosario Figari Layús and Ulrike Capdepón
Human Rights Trials without Human Rights Law: Prosecuting Nazi Crimes in Postwar Germany After Nuremberg Annette Weinke
Courts as a Site to Tell the “Truth”: The Case of Former Prison Commander Alexandru Vişinescu Kristine Avram
Seeking Justice for the Crimes of the Franco Dictatorship: The Politics of Victimhood in the “Argentine Legal Complaint”
Ulrike Capdepón
The Struggle of Victims for Human Rights Trials in Post-Dictatorship Chile Boris Hau
The State Against the State: The Impact of Governmental Contradictions on Human Rights Trials and Victims in Argentina
Rosario Figari Layús
Operation Condor Trials Abroad: The Innovation and Domestic Constraints of Transnational Prosecution
Debbie Sharnak
Tensions Between Criminal Trials and the Sense of Justice in Post-Conflict Peru Iris Jave
The International Criminal Court’s “Africa Problem” and Suppression of the “Justice Cascade”
Geoffrey Lugano
Conditions and Cultural Consequences of International Criminal Justice Intervention: The Case of Darfur Joachim J. Savelsberg
The Effects of Seeking Justice on Behalf of the Victim: A Critical Analysis of Criminal Trials in the Kenyan Post-Election Violence Transitional Justice Process Valeria Vegh Weis
Concluding Reflections: Towards the End of Impunity? The Scope and Impact of Human Rights Trials
Rosario Figari Layús and Ulrike Capdepón