Reparations under International Law for Enslavement of African Persons in the Americas and the Caribbean Speaker Abstracts

The presentation then analyses the different frameworks governing the institution of slavery at that time, distinguishing between the doctrine of slavery by nature and the institution of slavery under the just war doctrine. [...] By demonstrating an array of oppositions to the trade, not merely on moral grounds, I argue that any claims in favour of the legality of the trade in the past must confront who created the law, whom the law served and who bore the costs in the process of such legality becoming the dominant ideology. [...] Erpelding will examine the object and purpose of the Vienna Declaration, noting that its object was not the abolition of slavery itself, but the termination of the slave trade by all ‘civilised nations.’ This rationale, just as the one used in the hundreds of anti-slave trade treaties adopted by Western powers during the 19th century, was decidedly Eurocentric, as it linked the abolition of the tr. [...] The proposal, made by Professor Grossman in his capacity as a Member of the ILC, presents an opportunity for codification and progressive development of the legal rights to reparation for the individual and further develop international standards in this area, against the background of the traditional concepts and doctrines of reparation and the status of the individual in international law. [...] Professor Miller’s presentation will discuss the theory of the lawsuit and the forms of compensation that can repair the injuries done to the plaintiffs and other descendants of those who were killed, injured, or lost property in the Massacre as well as current residents of the Greenwood and North Tulsa neighborhoods and communities.