Institute for Redress and Recovery

Bibliography

United Nations and NGO Instruments and Documents

Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law, C.H.R. res. 2005/35, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/2005/ L.10/Add.11 (19 April 2005).

 

Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, Adopted by General Assembly resolution 40/34 of 29 November 1985.

 

Academic Literature: Law

Greenwood, Arin, Ripple Effects: Education and Self-Care Can Help Lawyers Avoid Internalizing Client Trauma, ABA Journal 20 (January 2006).

 

Levin, Andrew P., Vicarious Trauma in Attorneys, 24 Pace L. Rev. 245 (Fall 2003).

 

Lutz, Ellen, & Kathryn Sikkink, The Justice Cascade: The Evolution and Impact of Foreign Human Rights Trials in Latin America, 2 Chi. J. Int'l L. 1 (2001).

 

O’Connell, Jamie, Gambling the Psyche: Does Prosecuting Human Rights Violators Console Their Victims, 46 Harv. Int'l L. J. 295 (2005).

 

Parker, Lynette, Increasing Law Students' Effectiveness When Representing Traumatized Clients: A Case Study of the Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center, 21 Georgetown Immigration Law Review 163 (2007).

 

Shelton, Dinah L. & Thoris Ingadottir, The International Criminal Court: Reparations to Victims of Crimes (Article 75 of the Rome Statute) and the Trust Fund (Article 79) (1999) (prepared for the Center on International Cooperation at New York University).

 

Van Schaack, Beth, With All Deliberate Speed: Civil Human Rights Litigation As a Tool for Social Change, 57 Vanderbilt Law Review 2305 (2005).

 

Van Schaack, Beth, In Defense of Civil Redress: The Enforcement of Human Rights Through Civil Litigation in the Context of the Proposed Hague Judgments Convention, 42 Harv. Int’l L. J. 143 (2001).

 

Academic Literature: Psychology

Herman, Judith, Trauma and Recovery (Basic Books, 1997).

 

Plante, Thomas et al., Coping With Stress Among Salvadoran Immigrants, 17 Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 471 (1995).

 

Plante, Thomas et al., Stress and Coping Among Displaced Bosnian Refugees: An Exploratory Study, 9 International Journal of Stress Management 31 (January 2002).

 

Academic Literature: Secondary Stress & Trauma

Fischman, Yael, Interacting With Trauma: Clinicians' Responses to Treating Psychological Aftereffects of Political Repression, 61(2) American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (April 1991).

 

Greenwood, Arin, Ripple Effects: Education and Self-Care Can Help Lawyers Avoid Internalizing Client Trauma, 91 A.B.A. J. 20 (2006).

 

Holmgren, Helle, et al., Stress and Coping in Traumatized Interpreters: A Pilot Study of Refugee Interpreters Working for a Humanitarian Organization, 1(3) Intervention 22-27 (2003).

 

Hudnall Stamm, B., ed., Secondary Traumatic Stress, Self Care Issues for Clinicians, Researchers and Educators (Sidran Press, 1995).

 

Sagy, Tehila, Even Heroes Need To Talk: Psycho-Legal Soft Spots in the Field of Asylum Lawyering, London Law Review (2007).

 

Silver, Marjorie A. et al., Lawyering and Its Discontents: Reclaiming Meaning in the Practice of Law: Stress, Burnout, Vicarious Trauma, and Other Emotional Realities in the Lawyer Client Relationship, 19 Touro L. Rev. 847 (2004).