@article{ref1,
title="Adjudicating the Salvadoran Civil War: Expectations of the Law in Romagoza",
journal="Political and legal anthropology review",
year="2008",
author="Rubin, Jonah",
volume="31",
number="2",
pages="264-285",
abstract="This article analyzes the experiences of Neris Gonzalez, one of the three Salvadoran plaintiffs who brought a successful lawsuit against the former heads of the Salvadoran military for the torture she suffered in 1979. In analyzing the presentation of the case, I focus on the specific transformations that political and historical disputes undergo as they are subsumed into the formal rules of U.S. tort litigation. Further, I pay special attention to the ways legal narratives are designed specifically to appeal to a jury comprising 10 lay U.S. citizens, who have no familiarity with Salvadoran history. I demonstrate how torts litigation requires a depoliticization of the plaintiff and a personalization of history. I argue that, due to the form of the court fails in addressing the historical disputes in question.<p />",
language="",
issn="1081-6976",
doi="10.1111/j.1555-2934.2008.00025.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1555-2934.2008.00025.x"
}