Torture as Tort
Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation
The controversial nature of seeking globalised justice through national courts has become starkly apparent in the wake of the Pinochet case in which the Spanish legal system sought to bring to account under international criminal law the former President of Chile,for violations in Chile of human rights of non-Spaniards. Some have reacted to the involvement of Spanish and British judges in sanctioning a former head of state as nothing more than legal imperialism while others have termed it positive globalisation. While the international legal and associated statutory bases for such criminal prosecutions are firm, the same cannot be said of the…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84731-108-5
- EAN: 9781847311085
- Produktnummer: 17207892
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 776 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'786 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Craig Scott is Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Director of the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security of York University, Toronto
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