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Leigh A. Payne is a professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. She is known for her work on human rights, transitional justice, and civil society in Latin America.

Education and career[edit]

Payne did her undergraduate studies (1980) and a master's (1983) in Latin American Studies at New York University.[1] She later obtained an M.Phil. (1985) and Ph.D. (1991) in Political Science from Yale University.[1] Payne was a Faculty Fellow at the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame (1990) and a Lecturer at Yale University (1990–1991). She received her tenure at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was director of the Global Studies Program at that same university from 1999 until 2002. In 2009 she became a professor at the University of Oxford University where she works in the Sociology Department and Latin American Center.[2]

Contribution[edit]

Payne is known for her work on human rights and transitional justice. She has served as a consultant for peace processes, transitional justice and truth commissions in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Nigeria.[3] She co-created the Corporate Accountability and Transitional Justice (CATJ) Project that brought together the University of Oxford, and the organizations Dejusticia (Colombia), CELS and ANDHES (Argentina) to make visible abuses carried out by economic actors during authoritarian regimes in Latin America and to seek justice for those abuses.[4] She has served as a consultant on matters of human rights, civil society and development for international bodies such as the United Nations, the International Center for Transitional Justice, and the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights[3]. Her research informed reports on human rights by the United Nations,[5][6] the Organization of American States[7] and other regional human rights organizations.[8] Additionally, Payne has promoted human rights in international legal procedures[9] and her work has received wide media coverage.[10]

In her book The Right against Rights in Latin America she discusses her right against rights framework.[11]

Selected publications[edit]

  • 1994. Brazilian Industrialists and Democratic Change. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.[12]
  • 1995. Business and Democracy in Latin America. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press (co-edited with Ernest Bartell).[13]
  • 2000. Uncivil Movements: The Armed Right-Wing and Democracy in Latin America. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.[14]
  • 2008. Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.[15]
  • 2011. Accounting for Violence: The Memory Market in Latin America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press (co-edited with Ksenija Bilbija).[16]
  • 2012. Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability: Comparative and International Perspectives. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press (co-edited with Francesca Lessa).[17]

Awards and honors[edit]

The University of Wisconsin-Madison awarded Payne's the Vilas Associate Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,[18] and the John Leddy Phelan Award.[3] In 2008, she was awarded the Franklin Center Book Award for her book Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence.[19][20]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b https://areastudies.web.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/cv-leigh-payne-january-2024.pdf
  2. ^ https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-leigh-a.-payne
  3. ^ a b c "Professor Leigh A. Payne". www.area-studies.ox.ac.uk.
  4. ^ "Corporate Accountability in Transitional Justice". ahra.web.ox.ac.uk.
  5. ^ https://undocs.org/en/A/75/212
  6. ^ https://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?OpenAgent&DS=A/HRC/50/40/Add.4&Lang=E
  7. ^ www.oas.org/en/iachr/reports/pdfs/Business_Human_Rights_Inte_American_Standards.pdf
  8. ^ https://paxforpeace.nl/wp-content/uploads/import/import/la-paz-responsabilidad-de-todos-pax.pdf
  9. ^ "4 RE Responsabilidad de actores económicos en procesos de memoria, verdad y justicia en la región" – via www.youtube.com.
  10. ^ "CATJ Press Centre". ahra.web.ox.ac.uk.
  11. ^ Payne, Leigh A.; Zulver, Julia; Escoffier, Simón (2023). The right against rights in Latin America (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-726739-4.
  12. ^ Reviews of Brazilian Industrialists and Democratic Change
  13. ^ Review of Business and Democracy in Latin America
  14. ^ Review of Uncivil Movements
    • Galleguillos, Nibaldo H. (2004). "Uncivil Movements: The Armed Right Wing and Democracy in Latin America". Journal of Third World Studies ; Americus. 21 (1): 307–310 – via Proquest.
  15. ^ Reviews of Unsettling Accounts
  16. ^ Reviews of Accounting for Violence
  17. ^ Review of Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability
  18. ^ "Past Winners Vilas Associates | Research | UW–Madison". Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  19. ^ "Leigh A. Payne, Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence". Perpetrator Studies Network. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  20. ^ "A John Hope Franklin Center Book". De Gruyter. Retrieved 2024-03-05.



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