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Towards The Institutional Integration Of The Core Human Rights Treaties, Craig M. Scott
Towards The Institutional Integration Of The Core Human Rights Treaties, Craig M. Scott
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Introduction To Torture As Tort: From Sudan To Canada To Somalia, Craig M. Scott
Introduction To Torture As Tort: From Sudan To Canada To Somalia, Craig M. Scott
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The present work is chapter 1 of the edited volume, Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2001). At the time the book was generated, the controversial nature of seeking globalised justice through national courts had become starkly apparent in the wake of the Pinochet case in which the Spanish legal system sought extradition of the former President of Chile from the United Kingdom in order to bring him to account under Spanish criminal law for a variety of alleged violations in Chile of human rights, most notably involving torture. Yet, …