The Pinochet Effect : : Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights / / Naomi Roht-Arriaza.
The 1998 arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London and subsequent extradition proceedings sent an electrifying wave through the international community. This legal precedent for bringing a former head of state to trial outside his home country signaled that neither the immunity of a former head o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. The Beginning
- Chapter 2. The Adventures of Augusto Pinochet in the United Kingdom: A "Most Civilized Country"
- Chapter 3. The Investigations Come Home to Chile
- Chapter 4. Argentina: Truth and Consequences
- Chapter 5. The European Cases
- Chapter 6. Operation Condor Redux
- Chapter 7. The Legal Legacy of Pinochet: Universal Jurisdiction and Its Discontents
- Chapter 8. The Actors Behind the Pinochet Cases
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments