Corruption, Asset Recovery, and the Protection of Property in Public International Law (Hardcover)

Radha Ivory

ISBN 10: 1107058503 / ISBN 13: 9781107058507

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014

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Hardcover. In recovering assets that are or that represent the proceeds, objects, or instrumentalities of grand corruption, do states violate the human rights of politically exposed persons, their relatives, or their associates? Radha Ivory asks whether cooperative efforts to confiscate illicit wealth are compatible with rights to property in public international law. She explores the tensions between the goals of controlling high-level, high-value corruption and ensuring equal enjoyment of civil and political rights. Through the jurisprudence of regional human rights tribunals and the literature on confiscation and international cooperation, Ivory shows how asset recovery is a human rights issue and how principles of legality and proportionality have mediated competing interests in analogous matters. In cases of asset recovery, she predicts that property rights will likewise enable questions of individual entitlement to be considered in the context of collective concerns with good governance, global economic inequality, and the suppression of transnational crime. In returning wealth in grand corruption cases, do states violate the human rights of politically exposed persons or their associates? Analyzing the jurisprudence of key regional human rights tribunals, this book examines the compatibility of cooperative efforts at asset recovery with property and related guarantees in public international law. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Corruption, Asset Recovery, and the Protection of Property in Public International Law (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107058503
• ISBN 13: 9781107058507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In recovering assets that are or that represent the proceeds, objects, or instrumentalities of grand corruption, do states violate the human rights of politically exposed persons, their relatives, or their associates? Radha Ivory asks whether cooperative efforts to confiscate illicit wealth are compatible with rights to property in public international law. She explores the tensions between the goals of controlling high-level, high-value corruption and ensuring equal enjoyment of civil and political rights. Through the jurisprudence of regional human rights tribunals and the literature on confiscation and international cooperation, Ivory shows how asset recovery is a human rights issue and how principles of legality and proportionality have mediated competing interests in analogous matters. In cases of asset recovery, she predicts that property rights will likewise enable questions of individual entitlement to be considered in the context of collective concerns with good governance, global economic inequality, and the suppression of transnational crime.

About the Author

Radha Ivory is a Lecturer at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland.