Fighting Grand Corruption - Transnational and Human Rights Approaches in Latin America and Beyond

List of contents

Part I. Setting the Stage: International and Transnational Law and Policies: 1. The grand corruption problem; 2. Treaty law on corruption and on human rights: convergence and gaps; 3. Transnational approaches I: sizing up Guatemala's CICIG; 4. Transnational approaches II: sanctions, standards and third-party states; Part II. Putting Victims at the Center of Anti-Corruption Work: 5. Fraud on the river: victim access to corruption proceedings; 6. Giving it back: transnational asset recovery and repurposing; 7. Reparations for victims of grand corruption: applying a human rights framework; Part III. A Corruption Lens on Human Rights-Related Issues: 8. Transitions, transitional justice and grand corruption; 9. A corruption lens on atrocity crimes: seeing behind the slaughter; 10. Conclusions: where to, and what to watch out for?

About the author

Naomi Roht-Arriaza is Distinguished Professor of Law (emerita) and Sullivan Professor at the University of California Law, San Francisco, where she taught international human rights, international law and torts for almost thirty years. She is the author of The Pinochet Effect (2005) and Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice (1995) and coauthor of The International Legal System: Cases and Materials. She is the president of the Board of the Due Process of Law Foundation and on the coordinating committee of the UNCAC Coalition.

Summary

Courts and activists in Latin America have pioneered an approach that foregrounds human rights, victims' participation, asset recovery and reparation to fight systemic corruption. Using engaging stories and examples, the book will appeal to lawyers, Latin Americanists and anyone interested in reclaiming the common good.

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Naomi (University of California Roht-Arriaza, Roht-Arriaza Naomi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2025
• EAN: 9781009550611
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0955061-1
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Political corruption, Civil rights & citizenship, International institutions, Human rights, civil rights, Criminal justice law, Corruption in politics, government and society, International Organisations & Institutions, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Criminal law: corruption