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Human Rights Prosecutions and Democracies at War in Comparative Perspective

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This chapter puts the four empirical cases into comparative perspective, and it provides an analysis of the theoretical and substantive implications of the book’s central findings.

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  1. 1.

    Harris, Gardiner. “In Remote Corners of India, Immunity for Soldiers Who Kill and Rape Civilians,” The New York Times, July 20, 2014.

  2. 2.

    Simmons, Beth. Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press (2009), 114.

  3. 3.

    Simmons, 119.

  4. 4.

    Interview 18, Bilbao, Spain, 2010.

  5. 5.

    Yllera, Ignacio Sánchez. “La irrelevancia de la prueba ilícita en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos.” Paper presented at the Training Seminar for Public Prosecutors, Madrid, Spain, April 2012 (manuscript on file with the author).

  6. 6.

    Hillebrecht, Courtney. The Domestic Mechanisms of Compliance with International Human Rights Law: Case Studies from the Inter-American Human Rights System, Human Rights Quarterly 34(4) (2012): 959–985.

  7. 7.

    Scheuerman, William E. Emergency Powers. Annual Review of Law and Social Science 2 (2006), 267.

  8. 8.

    Scheuerman, 272.

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Lynch, M. (2019). Human Rights Prosecutions and Democracies at War in Comparative Perspective. In: Human Rights Prosecutions in Democracies at War. Human Rights Interventions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96908-4_6

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