We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY AND OTHER HISTORICAL INJUSTICES.
- Authors
Posner, Eric A.; Vermeule, Adrian
- Abstract
Victims of historical injustices who have no positive law claim against wrongdoers often seek reparations from governments, and occasionally they obtain them. The best known reparations programs are those for Japanese Americans who were interned by the United States government during World War II, and for victims of the Nazi Holocaust. But there are several other less well known programs both in the United States and abroad, and there are countless proposals for new reparations programs, including a proposal for slave reparations in the United States. The moral and political argruments for and against reparations in diverse contexts have received considerable attention, but problems of legal and institutional design have received almost none. This paper fills the gap in the literature by analyzing the various design options for reparations programs, their legal and constitutional bases, and their relationship to the standard moral and political arguments about reparations.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WAR reparations; SLAVERY; WAR crimes; JAPANESE American Redress Movement
- Publication
Columbia Law Review, 2003, Vol 103, Issue 3, p689
- ISSN
0010-1958
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1123721