Raluca Grosescu, Justice and Memory after Dictatorship. Latin America, Central Eastern Europe, and the Fragmentation of International Criminal Law, Oxford University Press, 2024.

Presentation

After the fall of military and communist dictatorships at the end of the 1980s, Latin American and Eastern European countries had to reckon with atrocities perpetrated by these Cold War regimes. Judges, prosecutors, and human rights campaigners across the two regions constructed novel readings of international criminal law to fight impunity and realize justice for gross human rights violations.

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