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Reparations for Slavery in International Law examines the case for contemporary redress for the harms and legacies of transatlantic enslavement from a legal perspective. The book critically evaluates the history of transatlantic enslavement as well as the evolutions in international law that justified and perpetuated the exploitation of African peoples and people of African descent.
List of contents
- Note on language
- Table of cases and instruments
- Introduction: The reparations debate and international law
- 1. From the 'transatlantic slave trade' to the maangamizi
- 2. The maangamizi and the making of international law
- 3. Adjudicating the 'past': the impact of time on reparability
- 4. Towards a theory of reparatory justice
- 5. Expanding understandings of reparatory justice through multiple modalities of redress
- 6. The causal chains connecting historical enslavement and contemporary redress
- 7. Reparatory justice in transition
- Conclusion: The reparations debate beyond international law
- Bibliography
About the author
Katarina Schwarz is Associate Director in the Rights Lab, and Associate Professor in Antislavery Law and Policy in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham. Her research addresses key challenges at the intersection of human exploitation and the law, from the historic to the contemporary. Dr Schwarz currently leads the Rights Lab's Law and Policy Programme, working at the interface of research and policy to deliver evidence-based guidance for antislavery action.
Summary
Reparations for Slavery in International Law examines the case for contemporary redress for the harms and legacies of transatlantic enslavement from a legal perspective. The book critically evaluates the history of transatlantic enslavement as well as the evolutions in international law that justified and perpetuated the exploitation of African peoples and people of African descent.
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Katarina Schwarz's book on slavery reparations is probably the most comprehensive treatment of the subject in recent years.
