Prosecuting heads of state / edited by Ellen L. Lutz, Caitlin Reiger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lutz, Ellen L., editor.

Reiger, Caitlin, 1970- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trials (Political crimes and offenses).

Heads of state--Legal status, laws, etc.

Heads of state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 326 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Since 1990, 65 former heads of state or government have been legitimately prosecuted for serious human rights or financial crimes. Many of these leaders were brought to trial in reasonably free and fair judicial processes, and some served time in prison as a result. This book explores the reasons for the meteoric rise in trials of senior leaders and the motivations, public dramas, and intrigues that accompanied efforts to bring them to justice. Drawing on an analysis of the 65 cases, the book examines the emergence of regional trends in Europe and Latin America and contains case studies of high-profile trials of former government leaders: Augusto Pinochet (Chile), Alberto Fujimori (Peru), Slobodan Milosevic (former Yugoslavia), Charles Taylor (Liberia and Sierra Leone), and Saddam Hussein (Iraq) - studies written by experts who closely followed their cases and their impacts on wider societies. This is the only book that examines the rise in the number of domestic and international trials globally and tells the tales in readable prose and with fascinating details.

Contents:

Introduction / Ellen L. Lutz and Caitlin Reiger

Prosecutions of heads of state in Europe / Ellen L. Lutz

Prosecutions of heads of state in Latin America / Naomi Roht-Arriaza

The multiple prosecutions of Augusto Pinochet / Naomi Roht-Arrizaz

A leader takes flight : the indictment of Alberto Fujimori / Ronald Gamarra

Charm and punishment : how the Philippines' leading man became its most famous prisoner / Abby Wood

Shifting legitimacy : the trials of Frederick Chiluba / Paul Lewis

A justice "trickle-down" : Rwanda's first post-genocide president on trial / Lars Waldorf

Justice squandered? : the trial of Slobodan Milošević / Emir Suljagić

A big man in a small cell : Charles Taylor and the Special Court for Sierra Leone / Abdul Tejan-Cole

Political pedagogy, Baghdad style : the Dujail trial of Saddam Hussein / Miranda Sissons and Marieke Wierda

Conclusion / Ellen L. Lutz and Caitlin Reiger.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780511575600

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