Human rights prosecutions in democracies at war

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Graphs -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Universe of Cases: Democracies at War -- The Relationship Between Emergency Laws and Human Rights Prosecutions -- Historical Institutionalism and Emergency Law -- Gradual Institutional Change -- The Emergency Institution -- Types of Institutional Change -- The Conditions Shaping Gradual Institutional Change: Political Context (Veto Power), the Characteristics of the Institution (Rule Interpretation and Enforcement), and Change Agents -- Explaining Human Rights Prosecutions in Democracies at War -- Agents of Change -- Independent Oversight of Executive Emergency Powers -- Judicial Review of Emergency Laws -- Judicial Independence -- Regional Human Rights Courts -- The Argument of the Book -- Data and Methodology -- Implications of the Research -- Overview of the Book -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Human Rights Prosecutions and Institutional Continuity in Sri Lanka -- Historical Background to the Conflict in Sri Lanka -- The Emergency Institution in Sri Lanka -- The History of Emergency Laws in Sri Lanka -- Immunity Clauses in Emergency Legislation -- Clauses on Inquests and Post-mortems in Emergency Legislation -- The Absence of Independent Oversight of Executive Emergency Powers -- Judicial Review Powers -- Judicial Independence -- The Absence of a Regional Human Rights Court -- Human Rights Prosecution Data -- Prosecutions During the Kumaratunga Administration -- The Final Years of the War: "Talking About Rights Is Irrelevant at Best"101 -- Future Accountability and the Emergency Institution -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Conversion, Layering, and Human Rights Prosecutions in Northern Ireland -- Historical Background to the Conflict in Northern Ireland -- The Emergency Institution in Northern Ireland15.