Prosecuting heads of state

No review available on this record. Title : Prosecuting heads of state Material Type: printed text Authors: Ellen L. Lutz, Author ; Caitlin Reiger (1970-), Author Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 2009 Pagination: xxi, 326 p. Layout: ill. Size: 23 cm. ISBN (or other code): 978-0-521-75670-9 Price: 18.99£ General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-308)and index Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Heads of state - Legal status, laws, etc Trials (Crimes against humanity) Trials (Political crimes and offenses) Class number: 345.0231 Abstract: 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 note: 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. Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=14933

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The Trial / Franz Kafka

No review available on this record. Title : The Trial Other title : Der Prozess Material Type: printed text Authors: Franz Kafka, Author ; Villa Muir, Translator Publisher: England : Penguin Books Publication Date: 1955 Pagination: 255 p. Size: 21 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-09-942864-0 Languages : English (eng) Original Language : German (deu) Descriptors: Trials (Crimes against humanity) Trials - Fiction Class number: 833.912 Abstract: This disturbing and vastly influential novel has been interpreted on many levels of structure and symbol; but most commentators agree that the book explores the themes of guilt, anxiety, and moral impotency in the face of some ambiguous force. Joseph K. is an employee in a bank, a man without particular qualities or abilities. He could be anyone, and in some ways he is everyone. His inconsequence makes doubly strange his arrest by the officer of the court in the large city where K. lives. He tries in vain to discover how he has aroused the suspicion of the court. His honesty is conventional; his sins, with Elsa the waitress, are conventional; and he has no striking or dangerous ambitions. He can only ask questions, and receives no answers that clarify the strange world of courts and court functionaries in which he is compelled to wander. The plight of Joseph K., consumed by guilt and condemned for a crime he does not understand by a court with which he cannot communicate, is a profound and disturbing image of man in the modern world. There are no formal charges, no procedures, and little information to guide the defendant. One of the most unsettling aspects of the novel is the continual juxtaposition of alternative hypotheses, multiple explanations, different interpretations of cause and effect, and the uncertainty it breeds. The whole rational structure of the world is undermined. Contents note: The arrest; First interrogation; Fraulein bursting friend; The whipper; K's uncle; Advocate; The commercial traveler; In the cathedral; The end; Epilogue; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=17586

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