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Trans-Atlantic Slavery and the Internationalization of Race

Beyond ecosystem services and nature's contributions: Is it time to leave utilitarian environmentalism behind?

Jamaican Middle-Class Immigrants in Toronto: Habitus, Capitals and Inclusion

A Bibliography of Civil War Articles: 1976


 Reparations for Slavery in International Law examines the case for contemporary redress for the harms and legacies of transatlantic enslavement from a legal perspective. It critically evaluates the history of transatlantic enslavement and the evolutions in international law that justified and perpetuated the exploitation of African people and people of African descent. It unpacks the requirements of state responsibility, assessing the impact of time on claims for redress for historic injustices. It presents a new theory of reparatory justice, responsive to both the underpinning principles and the modalities of redress in international law. This book considers the emerging practice of reparations in transitional justice and the relevance of these frameworks in cases of widespread historic injustice, while upending orthodox understandings of the international legal frameworks relevant to case for reparations. In so doing, it opens new space for the reconsideration not only of the international legal claim for reparations for slavery but also the moral and political case.

Reparations for Slavery in International Law

Abstract This chapter looks beyond the dominant focus on compensation to explore the various modalities of reparatory justice in international law and consider the implications of these different forms of redress on fundamental questions of reparability. Taking a broad approach, it examines reparations theory and practice in relation to satisfaction, restitution, compensation, cessation, and guarantees of non-repetition and non-recurrence. It looks in particular to the progressive reparations practice of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which provides an example of how responsive, multimodal reparations awards can be constructed in judicial practice. This provides the basis for reframing debates over whether reparations are appropriate in cases of historical injustice, accounting for the different forms of redress available in international law. 

Trans-Atlantic Slavery and the Internationalization of Race

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Beyond ecosystem services and nature's contributions: Is it time to leave utilitarian environmentalism behind?

Jamaican Middle-Class Immigrants in Toronto: Habitus, Capitals and Inclusion

A Bibliography of Civil War Articles: 1976

Reparations for Slavery in International Law

Expanding Understandings of Reparatory Justice through Multiple Modalities of Redress