Prosecuting heads of state
By: edited by Ellen L. Lutz, Caitlin Reiger.
Contributors: Lutz, Ellen L.; Reiger, Caitlin, 1970-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780521491099
Subjects: Trials (Political crimes and offenses); Heads of state -- Legal status, laws, etc
Description: Since 1990, 65 former heads of state or government have been legitimately prosecuted for serious human rights or financial crimes. Many of these leaders were brought to trial in reasonably free and fair judicial processes, and some served time in prison as a result. This book explores the reasons for the meteoric rise in trials of senior leaders and the motivations, public dramas, and intrigues that accompanied efforts to bring them to justice. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prosecutions of heads of state in Europe / Ellen L. Lutz; title: Prosecutions of heads of state in Latin America / Naomi Roht-Arriaza; title: The multiple prosecutions of Augusto Pinochet / Naomi Roht-Arrizaz; title: A leader takes flight : the indictment of Alberto Fujimori / Ronald Gamarra; title: Charm and punishment : how Joseph Estrada, the Philippines' leading man, became its most famous prisoner / Abby Wood; title: Shifting legitimacy : the trials of Frederick Chiluba / Paul Lewis; title: A justice "trickle-down" : Rwanda's first post-genocide president on trial / Lars Waldorf; title: Justice squandered? the trial of Slobodan Miloevic / Emir Suljagic; title: A big man in a small cell : Charles Taylor and the Special Court for Sierra Leone / Abdul Tejan Cole; title: Political pedagogy, Baghdad style : the Dujail trial of Saddam Hussein / Miranda Sissons and Marieke Wierda.