The Fatal Gift of Beauty:The Trials of Amanda Knox by Nina Burleigh I had largely finished this book when the news came that the Italian Appeals Court – the Court of Cassation – had, on March 26 ruled that American university student Amanda Knox and Italian student Raffaele Sollecito, briefly her … [Read more...]
Resistance to Dictatorship and Piercing the Immunity of the General
AUTHOR'S NOTE This column is a continuation of a discussion of these two books. The first part was published in LawNow March/April 2012.A look at Carmen Aguirre’s Something Fierce: Memoirs of A Revolutionary Daughter (2011) and Heraldo Normeydo Mendoza’s The Dictator’s Shadow: Life Under Augusto … [Read more...]
