Prosecuting heads of state / edited by Ellen L. Lutz, Caitlin Reiger.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

1st edition

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Trials (Political crimes and offenses)

Heads of state -- Legal status, laws, etc.

1. Introduction

2. Prosecutions of heads of state in Europe

3. Prosecutions of heads of state in Latin America

4. The multiple prosecutions of Augusto Pinochet

5. A leader takes flight: the indictment of Alberto Fujimori

6. Charm and punishment: how the Philippines' leading man became its most famous prisoner

7. Shifting legitimacy: the trials of Frederick Chiluba

8. A justice "trickle-down": Rwanda's first post-genocide president on trial

9. Justice squandered?: the trial of Slobodan Milošević

10. A big man in a small cell: Charles Taylor and the Special Court for Sierra Leone

11. Political pedagogy, Baghdad style: the Dujail trial of Saddam Hussein

12. Conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521756709

xxi, 326 p. : ill. ; 23 cm