United States Attorneys' Manual
Author : United States. Department of Justice
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Justice, Administration of
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Author : United States. Department of Justice
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Justice, Administration of
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Author : Alison Burke
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781636350684
Author : Carla Ferstman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004174494
This book provides detailed analyses of systems that have been established to provide reparations to victims of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and the way in which these systems have worked and are working in practice. Many of these systems are described and assessed for the first time in an academic publication. The publication draws upon a groundbreaking Conference organised by the Clemens Nathan Research Centre (CNRC) and REDRESS at the Peace Palace in The Hague, with the support of the Dutch Carnegie Foundation. Both CNRC and REDRESS had become very concerned about the extreme difficulty encountered by most victims of serious international crimes in attempting to access effective and enforceable remedies and reparation for harm suffered. In discussions between the Conference organisers and Judges and officials of the International Criminal Court, it became ever more apparent that there was a great need for frank and open exchanges on the question of effective reparation, between the representatives of victims, of NGOs and IGOs, and other experts. It was clear to all that the many current initiatives of governments and regional and international institutions to afford reparations to victims of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes could benefit greatly by taking into full account the wide and varied practice that had been built up over several decades. In particular, the Hague Conference sought to consider in detail the long experience of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (the Claims Conference) in respect of Holocaust restitution programmes, as well as the practice of truth commissions, arbitral proceedings and a variety of national processes to identify common trends, best practices and lessons. This book thus explores the actions of governments, as well as of national and international courts and commissions in applying, processing, implementing and enforcing a variety of reparations schemes and awards. Crucially, it considers the entire complex of issues from the perspective of the beneficiaries - survivors and their communities - and from the perspective of the policy-makers and implementers tasked with resolving technical and procedural challenges in bringing to fruition adequate, effective and meaningful reparations in the context of mass victimisation.
Author : Jo-Anne M. Wemmers
Publisher : Kugler Publications
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789062991440
Author : Irvin Waller
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Victims of crimes
ISBN : 9781442207066
Criticizes the balance of justice in the American justice system, discussing the rights and implementation of the rights granted to victims of crime, and describing ways to improve the system and better support victims with assistance, compensation, and protection from the accused.
Author : Catharine M. Goodwin
Publisher : West Group
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780314984470
Author : Joe Hudson
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Criminal law
ISBN :
Author : Jefri Wood
Publisher :
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Appellate procedure
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Author : Burt Galaway
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Ward Farnsworth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 022614433X
Restitution is the body of law concerned with taking away gains that someone has wrongfully obtained. The operator of a Ponzi scheme takes money from his victims by fraud and then invests it in stocks that rise in value. Or a company pays a shareholder excessive dividends or pays them to the wrong person. Or a man poisons his grandfather and then collects under the grandfather’s will. In each of these cases, one party is unjustly enriched at the expense of another. And in all of them the law of restitution provides a way to undo the enrichment and transfer the defendant’s gains to a party with better rights to them. Tort law focuses on the harm, or costs, that one party wrongfully imposes on another. Restitution is the mirror image; it corrects gains that one party wrongfully receives at another’s expense. It is an important topic for every lawyer and for anyone else interested in how the legal system responds to injustice. In Restitution, Ward Farnsworth presents a guide to this body of law that is compact, lively, and insightful—the first treatment of its kind that the American law of restitution has received. The book explains restitution doctrines, remedies, and defenses with unprecedented clarity and illustrates them with vivid examples. Farnsworth demonstrates that the law of restitution is guided by a manageable and coherent set of principles that have remarkable versatility and power. Restitution makes a complex and important area of law accessible, understandable, and interesting to any reader.