International law defines reparation as restitution, compensation, and satisfaction.
Evidence
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 45 John Smith Kendall, History of New Orleans (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1922), 1:481. The concept of “reparation” is defined in the International Law Commission’s Articles of State Responsibility as follows: “Full reparation for the injury caused by the internationally wrongful act shall take the form of restitution, compensation and satisfaction, either singly or in combination, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter” (Article 34). — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 716
Categorization
- DEFINE: This is the controlling legal definition of reparation that grounds Brown’s argument that reparations is accounting, not charity.
- XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s stated framing of reparations as accounting with three-part architecture.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 716