TY - BOOK ID - 85528776 TI - American transitional justice : writing Cold War history in human rights litigation PY - 2020 SN - 1108774520 1108804799 110880621X 1108477704 1108702554 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Government liability KW - Immunities of foreign states KW - Transitional justice KW - Cold War KW - World politics KW - Justice KW - Human rights KW - Immunities of foreign sovereigns KW - Jurisdictional immunities of foreign states KW - Sovereign immunity (International law) KW - State immunities (International law) KW - Government liability (International law) KW - Jurisdiction (International law) KW - Privileges and immunities KW - Sovereignty KW - Government immunity KW - Government responsibility KW - Liability, Government KW - Liability, Public KW - Liability of the state KW - Public liability KW - Sovereign immunity KW - State liability KW - State responsibility KW - Tort liability of the government KW - Tort liability of the state KW - Administrative law KW - Administrative responsibility KW - Constitutional law KW - Liability (Law) KW - Misconduct in office KW - Public law KW - Torts KW - Act of state KW - Constitutional torts KW - State action (Civil rights) KW - Cases. KW - Law and legislation KW - United States. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85528776 AB - Natalie Davidson offers an alternative account of Alien Tort Statute litigation by revisiting the field's two seminal cases, Filártiga (filed 1979) and Marcos (filed 1986), lawsuits ostensibly concerned with torture in Paraguay and the Philippines, respectively. Combining legal analysis, archival research and ethnographic methods, this book reveals how these cases operated as transitional justice mechanisms, performing the transition of the United States and its allies out of the Cold War order. It shows that US courts produced a whitewashed history of US involvement in repression in the Western bloc, while in Paraguay and the Philippines the distance from US courts allowed for a more critical narration of the lawsuits and their underlying violence as symptomatic of structural injustice. By exposing the political meanings of these legal landmarks for three societies, Davidson sheds light on the blend of hegemonic and emancipatory implications of international human rights litigation in US courts. ER -