INTRODUCTION. ABOUT THE LEGAL REFORMS OF UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION IN SPAIN

Authors

  • Consuelo Ramón Chornet

Keywords:

Sovereignity, immunity, human rights, universal jurisdiction, impunity, legitimacy

Abstract

The evolution on the legal reforms adopted by the Spanish government about universal jurisdiction admits that those pragmatic (but non-realistic) critics were right when they expected a short trajectory for these reforms. Their insistence on the difficulties related to the effectiveness understood ideally with a note of an inexorable imposition attributed to legal phenomenons— is not sufficient to refute its value as a condition of legitimacy of those phenomenons. In any case, the fight against the impunity of those behaviors being grave vulnerations of human rights requires a determined political will and clear legal instruments. None of these requirements seems to be met in the Spanish case currently

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Published

2020-06-18

How to Cite

Ramón Chornet, C. (2020). INTRODUCTION. ABOUT THE LEGAL REFORMS OF UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION IN SPAIN. Teoría & Derecho. Revista De Pensamiento jurídico, (21), 11–23. Retrieved from https://ojs.tirant.com/index.php/teoria-y-derecho/article/view/441