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In search of well-crafted amnesties: The emergence of a new jurisprudence on amnesty

Leiden Journal of International Law
The use of amnesties in transitional justice remains a contentious issue. The fight against impunity at the international level has left little room for the application of amnesties for international crimes and human rights abuses.
Jinú Carvajalino
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Employee Fraud and the Statute of Limitations in a Search and Matching Model

The Manchester School, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper integrates employee fraud into a Mortensen‐Pissarides search and matching model to analyze labor market dynamics under imperfect legal enforcement. We introduce a time‐dependent punishment structure where the offender's effective liability is governed by the statute of limitations. We characterize both short‐ and long‐run equilibria,
Mauricio Benegas, José Freire Júnior
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A Contribution to a Sociological Analysis of Impunity

Gdańskie Studia Prawnicze
Impunity is a frequent topic in journalism and private conversation, but it is rarely discussed in academic studies. A sociological analysis of impunity is intended to provide insight into what the sources, circumstances, and consequences of the ...
Jadwiga Królikowska
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“They Look At Us Like Parasites”: The Corporeal Stigmatization and Pathologization of Deportees in Tijuana, Mexico

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive ...
Carlos Martinez
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(Re)Turning to Black feminist consciousness: Deconstructing the politics of reproductive racism in Britain

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Using ethnographic vignettes from my doctoral research, this article contextualizes and analyses Britain's Black maternal health crisis— a crisis of reproductive racism— through a Black feminist lens. The inequities Black mothers face has a strong Black (and) feminist history of being analyzed in relation to the politics of anti‐Black racism ...
Princess Banda
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Justice denied: how the Egyptian legal system perpetuates impunity [PDF]

, 2013
Retribution to the martyrs of the Revolution is one of the core demands of Egypt\u27s 2011 Revolution. Almost three years later, this demand is yet to be fulfilled.
El Hosseiny, Salma Nasser
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
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After Impunity: The Anti-Impunity Norm, The Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace, and the Future of International Criminal Law

The predominance of international criminal law as a frontline response to atrocity crimes prioritizes the countering of impunity as an overarching goal. A corresponding “anti-impunity norm” identifies the legal punishment of individual perpetrators as a ...
Pensky, Max
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Between Citizenship and Solidarity: PRC and ROC Constructions of the Chinese Diaspora in the 1998 Anti‐Chinese Riots in Indonesia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The May 1998 anti‐Chinese riots in Indonesia tested how states claiming ties to a transnational ethnic community define responsibility during crises. This article compares how the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan) constructed obligations towards the Chinese diaspora following the violence.
Judy Yi‐nga Lee
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Protecting the minority: a place for impunity? An illustrated survey of amnesty legislation, its conformity with international legal obligations, and its potential as a tool for minority-majority reconciliation [PDF]

Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 2000
By granting immunity from prosecution to alleged and even confessed perpetrators, amnesty laws may be seen as a violation of fundamental international obligations to prosecute serious and systematic crimes against human life as well as in violation of ...
William W. Burke-White
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