American Transitional Justice - Writing Cold War History in Human Rights Litigation

Revisits two seminal human rights cases in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute, Filartiga and Marcos, exploring how these lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc. Essential reading for scholars of international law, politics, social movements, human rights, globalization, history and memory.

List of contents

1. Introduction. Revisiting the Gilded Age of transnational human rights litigation in US courts; 2. Alien tort statute litigation in legal practice and the legal imagination; 3. 'Foreign torture, American justice': Filártiga in the United States; 4. Filártiga in Paraguay; 5. Narrating the Marcos regime in US courts; 6. The Marcos case and transitional justice in the Philippines; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Natalie Davidson is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Tel-Aviv University. She has published about Alien Tort Statute litigation, feminist interventions in international law, the prohibition of torture, and interdisciplinary methodology.

Summary

Revisits two seminal human rights cases in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute, Filártiga and Marcos, exploring how these lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc. Essential reading for scholars of international law, politics, social movements, human rights, globalization, history and memory.

Foreword

Explores how two landmark transnational human rights lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc.

Product details

• Authors: Natalie R. Davidson
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2022
• EAN: 9781108702553
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70255-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 302 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Human Rights in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Human rights & civil liberties law, General & world history, Legal History, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, General and world history, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, The Cold War, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts