Fighting Grand Corruption

Transnational and Human Rights Approaches in Latin America and Beyond

AvNaomi Roht-Arriaza

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Grand corruption-systemic, large-scale, and top-down misappropriation of public resources for private gain-remains a pervasive problem around the world. It affects the ability of governments to educate, feed, and care for their people. It undermines human rights, perpetuates impunity, and erodes trust in government and the judiciary. It strengthens disgruntlement, authoritarianism, and insurgency. Corruption, however, is not a static force. In this work, Naomi Roht-Arriaza explores how corruption has changed, and how new anti-corruption thinking, especially in Latin America, centers human rights, victims' access to justice, and reparations. Roht-Arriaza shows how activists have used outside pressure and support for local actors where state institutions have been captured and foregrounds anti-corruption considerations in dealing with transitional justice and atrocity crimes. Written with engaging stories and examples, this book will appeal to lawyers, scholars of Latin America, and anyone else interested in fighting kleptocrats with the goal of reclaiming the common good.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-10
Mått:151 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:284
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009550611

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Naomi Roht-Arriaza is Distinguished Professor of Law (emerita) and Sullivan Professor at the University of California Law, San Francisco, where she taught international human rights, international law and torts for almost thirty years. She is the author of The Pinochet Effect (2005) and Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice (1995) and coauthor of The International Legal System: Cases and Materials. She is the president of the Board of the Due Process of Law Foundation and on the coordinating committee of the UNCAC Coalition.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Setting the Stage: International and Transnational Law and Policies: 1. The grand corruption problem; 2. Treaty law on corruption and on human rights: convergence and gaps; 3. Transnational approaches I: sizing up Guatemala's CICIG; 4. Transnational approaches II: sanctions, standards and third-party states; Part II. Putting Victims at the Center of Anti-Corruption Work: 5. Fraud on the river: victim access to corruption proceedings; 6. Giving it back: transnational asset recovery and repurposing; 7. Reparations for victims of grand corruption: applying a human rights framework; Part III. A Corruption Lens on Human Rights-Related Issues: 8. Transitions, transitional justice and grand corruption; 9. A corruption lens on atrocity crimes: seeing behind the slaughter; 10. Conclusions: where to, and what to watch out for?