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Overcoming barriers to justice in the age of human rights accountability

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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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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1353/hrq.2015.0040

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Oxford college:
St Antony's College
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
OSGA
Sub department:
Latin American Centre
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Author
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:
1085-794X
ISSN:
0275-0392
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Pubs id:
pubs:541467
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uuid:6bb7fdb8-c395-4fbd-9790-ac869529cfe0
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pubs:541467
Source identifiers:
541467
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2017-02-20

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