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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Reparations

Dinah Shelton

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
August 2015

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 03 October 2024

Subject(s):
Reparation — Belligerence — Responsibility of states — Compensation — Reparations — Geneva Conventions 1949 — Armed conflict — Prisoners of war

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 Reparation means recompense given to one who has suffered legal injury at the hands of another; to make amends, provide restitution, or give satisfaction or compensation for a wrong inflicted; it also refers to the thing done or given to the injured party. Restitution is restoring to the rightful owner something that has been wrongfully taken; it also means returning an injured party to a condition or situation that would have obtained had no wrongful act been committed. Compensation is usually money, but also refers to other materials or goods given as an...
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