Fighting Grand Corruption

Naomi Roht-Arriaza is Distinguished Professor of Law (emerita) and Sullivan Professor at the University of California Law, San Francisco, where she taught international human rights, international law and torts for almost thirty years. She is the author of The Pinochet Effect (2005) and Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice (1995) and coauthor of The International Legal System: Cases and Materials. She is the president of the Board of the Due Process of Law Foundation and on the coordinating committee of the UNCAC Coalition.

• Part I. Setting the Stage: International and Transnational Law and Policies: 1. The grand corruption problem; 2. Treaty law on corruption and on human rights: convergence and gaps; 3. Transnational approaches I: sizing up Guatemala's CICIG; 4. Transnational approaches II: sanctions, standards and third-party states; Part II. Putting Victims at the Center of Anti-Corruption Work: 5. Fraud on the river: victim access to corruption proceedings; 6. Giving it back: transnational asset recovery and repurposing; 7. Reparations for victims of grand corruption: applying a human rights framework; Part III. A Corruption Lens on Human Rights-Related Issues: 8. Transitions, transitional justice and grand corruption; 9. A corruption lens on atrocity crimes: seeing behind the slaughter; 10. Conclusions: where to, and what to watch out for?