| Author | Title | Citation | Document Type | Case Status | Summary | Year | Relevancy |
| Stephen Oliwa |
Is it Too Late Now to Say Sorry: German Reparations to Homosexuals |
18 Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion 95 (Fall, 2016) |
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Thousands of gay Germans were convicted--some even put to death--under a 1871 law that was on the books in Germany through the Holocaust until 1994. Germany's Green Party representatives Katja Keul and Volker Beck have demanded reparations on behalf of the thousands of men whose lives were ruined after being convicted under the provision. This... |
2016 |
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| Erika C. Weaver |
Reparations for Descendants of American Slaves: the Recurring Clarion Call That Emerges from Race-based, Social, and Political Movements |
21 Public Interest Law Reporter 167 (Spring, 2016) |
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The demand for reparations isn't new. It began with Callie House after enslavement ended. She knew that soldiers were given pension and sought a pension for freed slaves who were too old to work. In 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates reminded societies of the moral and ethical premise of reparations when he quoted Deuteronomy 15:12-15. Coates' piece detailed... |
2016 |
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| Ethan Hee-Seok Shin |
The "Comfort Women" Reparation Movement: Between Universal Women's Human Right and Particular Anti-colonial Nationalism |
28 Florida Journal of International Law 87 (April, 2016) |
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I. Introduction. 88 II. Imperial Japan and Its Aftermath. 91 A. Imperial Japan up to 1945. 91 B. The Politico-Legal Settlement after World War II. 94 C. Reparation Movement since the 1990s: From the Political to the Legal. 99 III. Main Legal Issues of the Japanese Reparation. 103 A. (Il)legality of Imperial Japan's Colonial Rule over Korea. 103 B.... |
2016 |
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| G. Flint Taylor |
The Long Path to Reparations for the Survivors of Chicago Police Torture |
11 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 330 (Spring, 2016) |
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In the early 1970s, a Chicago police detective named Jon Burge began a nearly twenty-year reign of police terror that was visited upon more than 120 almost exclusively African-American men who were interrogated at police stations on the South and West sides of Chicago. Burge, working with a unit of white detectives who came to be known as the... |
2016 |
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| Nancy Amoury Combs |
From Prosecutorial to Reparatory: a Valuable Post-conflict Change of Focus |
36 Michigan Journal of International Law 219 (Winter 2015) |
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Introduction. 219 I. International Criminal Prosecutions: Three Key Challenges. 226 A. Obtaining Custody Over Defendants. 227 B. Finding Accurate Facts. 234 C. Selectivity. 238 D. Summary. 239 II. Reparations as a Viable Alternative. 239 A. Obtaining Funds for Reparations. 243 B. Finding Accurate Facts. 257 III. The Normative Case for Shifting... |
2015 |
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| Reginald C. Wisenbaker, Jr. |
Muslim Community Reparations |
2 Savannah Law Review 391 (2015) |
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Muslim Americans are often targets of ill-founded discrimination, hate, and suspicion. Through popular cultural portrayals, salacious media reporting, and targeted governmental policies, Muslim Americans suffer from discrimination because mainstream Islam has become improperly conflated with terrorism in the United States. Compounding the harm,... |
2015 |
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| Nickolas Kaplan |
Reparations Now!: Municipal Reparations, International Tribunals, and the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials Campaign |
20 Public Interest Law Reporter 116 (Spring, 2015) |
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Chicago is an epicenter of systemic anti-black state violence. The murder of Fred Hampton, the torture ring of Chicago Police Department Commander Jon Burge, and the domestic equivalent of CIA black site at Homan Square are just the tip of the iceberg. Almost 500 people have been killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2015 as of June 1, with the... |
2015 |
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| Cameron Bell |
Repatriate . . . Then Compensate: Why the United States Owes Reparation Payments to Former Guantánamo Detainees |
48 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 867 (Spring 2015) |
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In late 2001, U.S. government officials chose Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as the site to house the war on terror detainees. Since then, 779 individuals have been detained at Guantánamo. Many of the detainees have endured years of detention, cruel and degrading treatment, and for some, torture--conduct that violates well-established prohibitions against... |
2015 |
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| Ayesha Bell Hardaway |
The Breach of the Common Law Trust Relationship Between the United States and African Americans: a Substantive Right to Reparations |
39 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 525 (2015) |
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You don't simply say I'm sorry to the man you've robbed. You return what you stole or your apology takes on a hollow ring. Introduction. 526 I. An Overview of African American Reparations Claims. 529 A. Waivers of Sovereign Immunity. 531 1. The Federal Tort Claims Act. 533 2. The Tucker Act. 533 B. Notable African American Reparations Claims.... |
2015 |
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| Joey L. Mogul |
The Struggle for Reparations in the Burge Torture Cases: the Grassroots Struggle That Could |
21 Public Interest Law Reporter 209 (Symposium, 2015) |
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On May 6, 2015, the City of Chicago passed unprecedented legislation providing reparations to Black people tortured by a former Chicago Police Commander and a ring of detectives under his command. This historic moment was the culmination of a forty-year struggle that involved decades of litigation, organizing and investigative journalism. It is... |
2015 |
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| Thomas M. Antkowiak |
A Dark Side of Virtue: the Inter-american Court and Reparations for Indigenous Peoples |
25 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law L. 1 (Fall 2014) |
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INTRODUCTION. 2 I. REMEDIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. 5 A. Overview. 5 B. Remedies for Indigenous Peoples in International Law. 10 II. THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT'S CASE LAW: REPARATIONS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. 17 A. Introduction. 17 1. Definition and Case Selection. 17 2. The Court's General Criteria for Monetary and... |
2014 |
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| Aurora E. Bewicke |
Realizing the Right to Reparations for Girl Soldiers: a Child-sensitive and Gendered Approach |
26 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 182 (2014) |
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The 2012 guilty verdict issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Thomas Lubanga Dyilo case has brought significant attention to the issue of child soldiering. Yet, despite global attempts to criminalize child soldier recruitment, armed groups' willingness to capitalize on children's inherent vulnerabilities and the proliferation of... |
2014 |
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| Gregory S. Alexander |
The Complexities of Land Reparations |
39 Law and Social Inquiry 874 (Fall, 2014) |
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The question whether unjust dispossessions of land perpetrated on whole peoples in the past should be corrected by restitution in kind, that is, granting reparations in the form of returning land to the dispossessed former owners or their present-day successors, is substantially more complex than the questions posed by other forms of reparations. 1... |
2014 |
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| Morgan Lynn Klinzing |
Denying Reparation for Slave and Forced Laborers in World War Ii and the Ensuing Humanitarian Rights Implications: a Case Study of the Icj's Recent Decision in Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Ger. v. It.: Greece Intervening) |
41 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 775 (Spring, 2013) |
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I. Introduction. 777 II. Historical Background. 778 A. Early Restitution. 779 B. Litigation of Forced Labor Claims. 781 C. The German Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility, and the Future'. 784 D. Previous Developments and Cases in Italy and Greece. 786 III. Case Analysis. 788 A. Greek Judgments Enforced in Italy. 789 B. Italy's Arguments and the... |
2013 |
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| Nell Moley |
Methods of Reparations in the International Criminal Court: the Impossibility of Individual Awards in the Democratic Republic of Congo |
17 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 251 (Spring 2013) |
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After reaching its first ever conviction of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo for the commission of war crimes, the International Criminal Court faces unanswered questions regarding payment of reparations to victims of mass atrocities and war crimes. This Comment examines the current situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and discusses whether... |
2013 |
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| Kindaka Jamal Sanders |
Re-assembling Osiris: Rule 23, the Black Farmers Case, and Reparations |
118 Penn State Law Review 339 (Fall 2013) |
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This Article examines why the Black Farmers case, a series of legal events involving claims of racial discrimination by African-American farmers against the federal government, may technically qualify as a slavery reparations case. This Article also explores how the case became a viable slavery reparations case in a legal and political environment... |
2013 |
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| Eric K. Yamamoto , Susan K. Serrano |
Reparations Theory and Practice Then and Now: Mau Mau Redress Litigation and the British High Court |
18 Asian Pacific American Law Journal 71 (Fall 2012-Spring) |
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Claims to reparations for historic injustice mark the modern global landscape. Starting in the late 1980s, with the United States' redress for 120,000 wrongly incarcerated American citizens and Japanese ancestry during World War II, reparations advocates advanced claims on behalf of African Americans, Native Americans, Native Hawaiians and... |
2013 |
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| Patricia M. Muhammad |
The Trans-atlantic Slave Trade: a Legacy Establishing a Case for International Reparations |
3 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 147 (2013) |
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This Article examines the legal principle of restitution (reparations) as applied to crimes against humanity that were committed as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, as enumerated in international conventions and statutes. The Trans-Atlantic Slave trade's peculiar attractiveness to Western nation-states that implemented the institution... |
2013 |
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| David L. Eng |
Reparations and the Human |
21 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 159 (2012) |
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Perhaps most importantly, we must recognize that ethics requires us to risk ourselves precisely at moments of unknowingness, when what forms us diverges from what lies before us, when our willingness to become undone in relation to others constitutes our chance of becoming human. To be undone by another is a primary necessity, an anguish, to be... |
2012 |
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| Ruth Rubio-Marin |
Reparations for Conflict-related Sexual and Reproductive Violence: a Decalogue |
19 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 69 (Fall, 2012) |
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Introduction I. Harm-Centered Reparations: The Specificity of Sexual Violence-Related Harms II. Decalogue for Reparations of Victims of Sexual and Reproductive Violence A. Administrative Reparations Programs B. Ensuring the Participation of Victims and Relevant Civil Society Actors C. Overcoming Silencing, Under-Inclusion, Undervaluation, and... |
2012 |
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| Danielle Boaz |
Introducing Religious Reparations: Repairing the Perceptions of African Religions Through Expansions in Education |
26 Journal of Law and Religion 213 (2010-2011) |
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Western bookstores today are full of small boxes that advertise Voodoo Revenge Kit on the front. Their short descriptions encourage anyone who wishes to harm a cheating lover and curse a difficult boss to buy this product. Companies now sell t-shirts, mugs, buttons and key chains with voodoo dolls, and bound figures with needles through the... |
2011 |
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| Charles E. Rounds, Jr. |
Proponents of Extracting Slavery Reparations from Private Interests must Contend with Equity's Maxims |
42 University of Toledo Law Review 673 (Spring 2011) |
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The sensitive ear has heard the collective thank you from those who were freed, as well as the historic apologies in words and deeds from persons of good will for the evils of slavery.--Charles Ronald Norgle, District Judge. A court of law or a court of equity is not an appropriate forum in which to resolve issues of collective descendant... |
2011 |
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| Anita Bernstein , Hans Dieter Seibel |
Reparations, Microfinance, and Gender: a Plan, with Strategies for Implementation |
44 Cornell International Law Journal 75 (Winter 2011) |
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Introduction. 76 I. The Strategy. 79 A. Engaging Microfinance Institutions to Effect Reparations. 79 1. Terminology. 79 2. The Plan in Brief: Transfer Payments to, and Shares in, Microfinance Institutions. 80 3. Upgrading and Linking to Larger Financial Institutions. 81 4. Options for the Reparations Plan. 85 B. Extending the Microfinance Record.... |
2011 |
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| Carlton Waterhouse |
Total Recall: Restoring the Public Memory of Enslaved African-americans and the American System of Slavery Through Rectificatory Justice and Reparations |
14 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 703 (Summer 2011) |
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Between the founding of the Republic and the Civil War, the majority of the presidents--from Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Jackson through Tyler, Polk, and Taylor--were slaveholders, and generally substantial ones. The same was true for the justices of the Supreme Court, where for most of the period between the ratification of the... |
2011 |
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| Julian Simcock |
Unfinished Business: Reconciling the Apartheid Reparation Litigation with South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
47 Stanford Journal of International Law 239 (Winter 2011) |
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I. Introduction. 239 II. Part I: The Structure and Intent of South Africa's TRC. 242 A. Historical Context. 243 B. Structure--An African Conception of Justice?. 245 C. The Nature of Reparations Recommended by the TRC. 246 D. The TRC's Approach to Amnesty. 248 III. Part II: Corporate Participation in the TRC. 249 A. The TRC's Approach to... |
2011 |
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| Adjoa A. Aiyetoro |
Why Reparations to African Descendants in the United States Are Essential to Democracy |
14 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 633 (Summer 2011) |
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We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. Louis Dembitz Brandeis 1856-1941 Democracy is not identical with majority rule. Democracy is a State which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of force... |
2011 |
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| Lolita Buckner Inniss |
A Critical Legal Rhetoric Approach to in re African-American Slave Descendants Litigation |
24 Saint John's Journal of Legal Commentary 649 (Summer 2010) |
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Critical legal rhetoric is a means of explicating the way in which rhetoric and ideology relate to law. It names the rhetorical practices and clarifies the ideologies that go into making up the law's articulations. Critical legal rhetoric is, in other words, a way of understanding not only why law performs its work, but how. Critical legal rhetoric... |
2010 |
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| David C. Gray |
A No-excuse Approach to Transitional Justice: Reparations as Tools of Extraordinary Justice |
87 Washington University Law Review 1043 (2010) |
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It is sometimes the case that a debate goes off the rails so early that riders assume the rough country around them is the natural backdrop for their travels. That is certainly true in the debate over reparations in transitions to democracy. Reparations traditionally are understood as material or symbolic awards to victims of an abusive regime... |
2010 |
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| Adjoa A. Aiyetoro, Adrienne D. Davis |
Historic and Modern Social Movements for Reparations: the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'cobra) and its Antecedents |
16 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 687 (Symposium Edition 2010) |
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In the 1950s, a young mother in Fairbanks, Alaska joined her local NAACP. Ten years later, a freshman student at Bowdoin College in Maine began studies that included a course on Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism. During the same decade, two social workers blended their work for New York's state and municipal organizations with their racial... |
2010 |
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| Andre Smith, Carlton Waterhouse |
No Reparation Without Taxation: Applying the Internal Revenue Code to the Concept of Reparations for Slavery and Segregation |
7 Pittsburgh Tax Review 159 (Spring, 2010) |
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Carlton: Andre, if you don't mind terribly, I'd like your opinion on the relationship between taxes and the concept of reparations generally and reparations to Blacks for slavery and segregation specifically. As you know, I have done considerable research and writing on the subject of reparations for slavery and segregation. Most scholarship... |
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