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CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW. STUDY ON THE EMERGENCE OF A LEGAL ORDER
2009
According to a prevailing view, the law of international criminal jurisdictions constitutes a branch of public international law. However, despite a strong institutional anchoring to public international law, this area of law, which is referred to as international criminal law for the purposes of this study, seems to go beyond the framework of public international law. Unprecedented solutions are being developed by international criminal courts to deal with situations referred to them. The international criminal judge plays a key role in this mechanism of overcoming public international law. The emergence of mass terrorism coupled with the trivialization of internal armed conflicts undermin…
Justicia transicional y justicia reconstitutiva
2014
RESUMEN. El presente trabajo contrapone dos versiones de la justicia transicional: para la primera, minimalista, se trata de una justicia ordinaria que solo es excepcional porque debe ejercerse en condiciones extremas que no afectan sin embargo a su naturaleza. En cambio, en la segunda concepción, la justicia sale profundamente transformada ante el tipo de violencia política que debe afrontar, e inaugura de forma permanente una posición diferente de la justicia en la democracia. El sentido profundo de la institución de una nueva categoría de crimen, el crimen contra la humanidad, es esta exigencia de repensar el papel de la justicia asignándole la tarea de proteger la política de sus gérmen…