Redressing Injustices Through Mass Claims Processes: Innovative Responses To Unique Challenges

Redressing Injustices Through Mass Claims Processes: Innovative Responses To Unique Challenges

Product Description Mass claims processes involve large numbers of claims and claimants, usually arising from a specific historic event. This volume offers a birds-eye view of major mass claims settlement processes, and provides useful insights for those involved with the establishment of new international claims settlement tribunals. It includes chapters examining the distinct nature of mass claims settlement procedures, evidentiary issues, innovations to speed up mass claims processes, as well as specific mass claims case studies and responses by the international community to issues of compensation and reparations. Review Redressing Injustices Through Mass Claims Processes, the second of the three PCA-sponsored books in this area, presents a comprehensive collection of studies by a group of mass claims specialists who explain a number of the necessarily diverse and innovative mass claims processes, as well as their theoretical underpinnings, that have been developed in response to the unique challenges of large-scale tragedies. - Christopher Gibson, Suffolk University Law School About the Author The International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration is housed in the Peace Palace in The Hague, alongside the International Court of Justice, and administers arbitration, conciliation and fact-finding services in disputes involving issues of public and private international law between states, private parties, and intergovernmental organizations.