Prosecuting Heads of State - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521491096 ISBN 13: 9780521491099

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The meteoric rise in criminal prosecutions of former heads of state is examined for the first time in this probing and engaging narrative.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Ellen L. Lutz is the Executive Director of Cultural Survival, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She previously directed the Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution and taught international human rights law, international criminal law, and other international law subjects at Tufts University's Fletcher School. From 1989 to 1994, she served as the California Director for Human Rights Watch and as HRW's principal researcher on Mexico. She has written widely on human rights and conflict resolution, international and transnational accountability for human rights violations, indigenous rights, and human rights in Latin America. Lutz received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (1985) and her M.A. in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College (1978).

Caitlin Reiger, a recognized expert on international prosecutions, is Deputy Director of the Prosecutions Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice. From 2003 to 2005 she was the chamber's senior legal advisor to the judges of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. In 2001 she co-founded and served as legal research coordinator of the Judicial System Monitoring Program in East Timor and later appeared as defense counsel before East Timor's Special Panels for Serious Crimes. Reiger has provided extensive policy advice and comparative research on national-international tribunals for serious human rights violations. Reiger manages ICTJ's Cambodia program and formerly managed the ICTJ's former Yugoslavia program. She received a BA in history and an LLB from the University of Melbourne (1996), and an LLM (in international law/human rights) from the London School of Economics (2003).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521491096
• ISBN 13: 9780521491099
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 350
• Herausgeber: Lutz Ellen L., Reiger Caitlin
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italien