Description
Book SynopsisMass claims have historically allowed victims of wrongdoing on an extensive scale to be compensated for losses suffered. This insightful book surveys and evaluates both domestic and international mass claims processes, delineating their successes and failures in providing this compensation.
Through an in-depth examination of the efficacy and efficiency of mass claims processes, Jason Scott Palmer analyses the actors involved and their roles, such as those who provide reparations and why these reparations are provided. Palmer carefully considers the utility of potential future mass claims reparations regimes through the use of hypothetical mass claims property losses, based on highly relevant case studies such as the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He emphasizes that, to fully understand mass claims reparations programs, one must inspect the complete process of reparations funding and distribution.
Academics researching domestic and international mass claims processes will find the historical analysis within this book to be essential. Due to its practical implications, practitioners engaged in litigating or designing mass claims processes will additionally benefit from its scope.
Trade Review‘The book succeeds at three levels: introducing international mass-claim processes, an important but understudied discipline; comparing international processes against those in the United States, revealing important insights; and providing practical guidance on contemporary crises – from the war in Ukraine to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – born of the author’s firsthand experience.’ -- Jeremy K. Sharpe, Columbia Law School, US
‘Mass claims processes may take up a small corner of international law, but that corner has great importance for victims. Jason Scott Palmer, one of the few lawyers with actual experience in the field, makes a critical contribution to the limited literature with ‘Reparations in Domestic and International Mass Claims Processes’. Given the state of the world, this book will be more useful than even Professor Palmer could have predicted.’ -- Lucy Reed, Arbitration Chambers, US
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. What is mass claims processing? 2. Class actions in the United States: past, present, and future 3. The Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill and its consequences 4. The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund: reparations for terrorist attacks on U.S. soil 5. In Re Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation: a hybrid U.S. mass claims action 6. International mass claims reparations for Holocaust claims: Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland (CRT-I and CRT-II) 7. Global mass claims reparations: the United Nations Compensation Commission 8. Compensating losses in future international mass claims processes. Index
