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

by Natalie R. Davidson

Book Overview

Natalie Davidson offers an alternative account of Alien Tort Statute litigation by revisiting the field's two seminal cases, Fil rtiga (filed 1979) and Marcos (filed 1986), lawsuits ostensibly concerned with torture in Paraguay and the Philippines, respectively. Combining legal analysis, archival research and ethnographic methods, this book reveals how these cases operated as transitional justice mechanisms, performing the transition of the United...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108477704
• ISBN13: 9781108477703
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"