Redressing Injustices through Mass Claims Processes: Innovative Responses to Unique Challenges

by The International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (Editor)

Overview

Mass claims processes involve large numbers of claims and claimants, usually arising from a specific historic event. This volume offers a bird's-eye view of major mass claims settlement processes, and provides useful insights for those involved with the establishment of new international claims settlement tribunals. It includes chapters examining the distinct nature of mass claims settlement procedures, evidentiary issues, innovations to speed up mass claims processes, as well as specific mass claims case studies and responses by the international community to issues of compensation and reparations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199297931
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/04/2006
Pages:	530
Product dimensions:	9.44(w) x 6.61(h) x 1.37(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction, Tjaco T. van den HoutForeword, Howard M. HoltzmannThe Concept of Mass Claims and the Specificity of Mass Claims Resolution, Hans DasInnovations to Speed Mass Claims: New Standards of Proof, Jacomijn van Haersolte-van HofVirtue Out of Necessity: International Mass Claims and New Uses of Information Technology, Veijo HeiskanenRaising the Stakes: Evidentiary Issues in Individual Claims Before the United Nations Compensation Commission, Rajesh SinghThe Austrian General Settlement Fund: An Overview, Hannah LesssingClaims for 'Other Personal Injury' under the German Forced Labour Compensation Programme, Edda Kristjansdottir and Barbora SimerovaThe French Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliation: A Critique, Eric FreedmanThe United States Indian Claims Commission: A Remedy for 'Ancient Wrongs' - A Source for New Wrongs, Thomas E. LuebbenLitigating Mass Claims Involving Slavery and Jim Crow under United States Law, Roy L. BrooksCompensating the Families and Victims of September 11th: An Alternative to the American Tort System, Kenneth R. FeinbergMass Claims Processes: Lessons Learned Over Twenty-Five Years, John R. CrookThe Role of Civil Society Actors in Reparations Legislation, Andrea ArmstrongCompensation for Victims of Terrorism: The Council of Europe's 2005 Guidlelines on the Protection of Victims of Terrorist Acts, Emmanuel RoucounasCodifying the Rights of Victims in International Law: Remedies and Reparation, Gabriela EcheverriaThe Reparations Provisions for Victims Under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Gilbert Bittiand Gabriela Gonzales-Rivas

Editorial Reviews

"Redressing Injustices Through Mass Claims Processes, the second of the three PCA-sponsored books in this area, presents a comprehensive collection of studies by a group of mass claims specialists who explain a number of the necessarily diverse and innovative mass claims processes, as well as their theoretical underpinnings, that have been developed in response to 'the unique challenges' of large-scale tragedies."
-Christopher Gibson, Suffolk University Law School

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