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UC Law San Francisco Distinguished Professor Emerita Naomi Roht-Arriaza will discuss her book Fighting Grand Corruption: Transnational and Human Rights Approaches in Latin America and Beyond (2025), which explores how corruption has changed to encompass systemic, top-down capture of state institutions. In response, anti-corruption movements, particularly in Latin America, are now shifting focus to center human rights, justice for victims, and the potential for reparations. Corruption is not a victimless crime, and she discusses why that matters at home and abroad.
Professor Roht-Arriaza is the president of the Board of the Due Process of Law Foundation and a member of the Civil Society Coalition for the UN Convention Against Corruption’s coordinating committee. She was a Democracy Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development, and in 2012 she was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Botswana. She has authored The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights (2005) and Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice (1995), and coedited Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth versus Justice. She is a coauthor on The International Legal System: Cases and Materials (6-8th Eds.). Her work was featured in the film Granito.
Lunch will be provided.