Journal article
Overcoming barriers to justice in the age of human rights accountability
- Abstract:
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Amnesty laws are viewed as a main barrier to justice for past human rights violations. Scholars and practitioners expected the age of human rights accountability to reduce the number or coverage of amnesty laws that block human rights trials. Based on analysis of an original database of amnesty laws and trials, this article questions that outcome. Few discernible patterns regarding amnesty laws and accountability emerge; human rights trials are nearly as likely in the absence of amnesty laws ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Human Rights Quarterly Journal website
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 728-754
- Publication date:
- 2015-08-06
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1085-794X
- ISSN:
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0275-0392
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:541467
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uuid:6bb7fdb8-c395-4fbd-9790-ac869529cfe0
- Local pid:
- pubs:541467
- Source identifiers:
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541467
- Deposit date:
- 2017-02-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2015
- Notes:
- © 2015 by Johns Hopkins University Press
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