Book contents
- Between Immunity and Impunity
- Between Immunity and Impunity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Court and Litigation Documents
- Table of International and Regional Legal Instruments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Immunities of Public Officials under International Law
- 2 The Immunity Challenge in Cases of the Labor Trafficking of Diplomatic Household Workers
- 3 Immunity from Foreign Jurisdiction as a Gateway to Transnational Corruption and Money Laundering
- 4 The Triumphs and Trials of Public Officials Embroiled in Drug Trafficking
- General Conclusions
- Index
General Conclusions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 December 2023
- Between Immunity and Impunity
- Between Immunity and Impunity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Court and Litigation Documents
- Table of International and Regional Legal Instruments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Immunities of Public Officials under International Law
- 2 The Immunity Challenge in Cases of the Labor Trafficking of Diplomatic Household Workers
- 3 Immunity from Foreign Jurisdiction as a Gateway to Transnational Corruption and Money Laundering
- 4 The Triumphs and Trials of Public Officials Embroiled in Drug Trafficking
- General Conclusions
- Index
Summary
How does the cloak of immunity protecting foreign public officials under international law enable their impunity before foreign courts for the crimes they committed for private gain? This was the question with which the book commenced. In answering it, an interdisciplinary attempt was made to come to grips with the structural injustices created by international rules of immunity in preventing well-resourced and internationally protected political elites from accountability for trafficking in persons, corruption and money laundering, and drug trafficking. The ways in which these crimes are perpetrated by political elites constitute an advanced form of criminality in which the perpetrators abuse their authority and personal privileges as public officials and, in so doing, disguise misconduct in the official mandate and even under the pretense of law-abiding behavior. These are the ultimate economic crimes that occur at the nexus of power, privilege, and impunity.
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- Between Immunity and ImpunityExternal Accountability of Political Elites for Transnational Crime, pp. 248 - 258Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023