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In recent years, victims of human rights abuses have filed civil lawsuits in U.S. courts. This litigation provides victims a voice and promotes accountability for violations of international law.
This is the story of Filartiga v. Pena-Irala, one of the most significant examples of human rights litigation in the U.S., presented as a documentary history - an approach to legal scholarship that has become increasingly popular in recent years. Unlike traditional casebooks, this book emphasizes the dynamic nature of law. The pleadings and documents appear with minimal editing and are supplemented through commentary by various litigation participants.
Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
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Mark Ezell
reviewed The Anatomy of Torture: A Documentary History of Filartiga v. Pena-Irala on November 06, 2016
The Anatomy of Torture
This book has a misleading title-- it is more about Christian witchcraft theorists and their struggle to come to terms with their religion as it was being taught and preached than about witchcraft or sex. Stephens' theory is that witchcraft theorists used witchcraft and demons to convince themselves of the verity of God. This is not an uninteresting idea, but he tends to bring it too far into semantics for my taste.
At points, he seems to be merely fitting what evidence he can find into a pre-determined thesis and skeleton. He barely glosses over the pagan and folkloric traditions of witchcraft and tells us that as modern readers, we clearly know that witches and demons do not exist, thus completely dismissing this side of the argument. In these things, he seems to fall into the same traps that he accuses the witchcraft theorists of.
He gets a little goofy at times, but I did appreciate the book for the large amount of information that it gathered together.
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