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Seeking Human Rights Justice in Latin America: Truth, Extra-Territorial Courts, and the Process of Justice

Title : Seeking Human Rights Justice in Latin America: Truth, Extra-Territorial Courts, and the Process of Justice
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Rating : 4.82 (547 Votes)
Asin : 0521514363
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 252 Pages
Publish Date : 2017-06-06
Language : English

About the Author Jeffrey Davis is Chair and Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Research for this book was conducted in part while serving as a visiting scholar at the University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica, site of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. . He is the author of Justice across Borders: The Struggle for Human Rights in US Courts (Cambridge, 2008) and has published articles on human rights accountability, the inter-American human rights system, and judicial decision making. He has taught human rights law, international law, constitutional law and comparative law for more than ten years and has won several teaching awards

This book studies how victims of human rights violations in Latin America, their families, and their advocates work to overcome entrenched impunity and seek legal justice. Their struggles show that legal justice is a multifaceted process, the overarching purpose of which is to restore human dignity and prevent further violence. These extra-territorial courts can jumpstart the process of legal justice at home. Seeking Human Rights Justice in Latin America examines the political and legal struggle through the lens of the human story at the heart of these cases.. When faced with stubborn impunity at home, victims, families, and advocates can carry on their work for legal justice by bringing cases in courts in other countries or in the Inter-American human rights system. Uncovering, revealing, and proving the truth are essential elements of legal justice, and are also powerful tools to activate the process

Research for this book was conducted in part while serving as a visiting scholar at the University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica, site of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Jeffrey Davis is Chair and Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. . He has taught human rights law, internation

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