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International Crimes or Ordinary Crimes? The ‘Dual Classification of the Facts’ as an Interpretive Method

dc.contributor.authorMaculan, Elena
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-20T11:20:16Z
dc.date.available2024-05-20T11:20:16Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractMany domestic courts, when prosecuting atrocities committed in their dictatorial or warring past, have been facing a real dilemma: whether to classify the facts as ordinary crimes, foreseen by the domestic legislation prior to the facts and therefore consistent with the principles of legality and non-retroactivity, or as international crimes, which do not grant the same compatibility but allow to overcome the obstacles to prosecution imposed by statutory limitations and amnesties. The paper focuses on an interpretative method developed by several Latin American tribunals to overcome this impasse, by means of a combined application of the two criminal categories. Although this ‘dual classification of facts’ apparently solves the dilemma, it is flawed from both a methodological and substantive perspective. After scrutinising these problematic issues, the paper analyses some alternative interpretative proposals that may also allow to avoid impunity, but without impinging on fundamental principles of modern criminal law systemses
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dc.identifier.doi10.1163/15718123-BJA10055
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/11722
dc.journal.titleInternational Criminal Law Review
dc.journal.volume21
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherBrill
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Derecho
dc.relation.departmentDerecho Penal y Criminología
dc.rightsAtribución 4.0 Internacional
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.subject.keywordsdual classification of the facts
dc.subject.keywordsprinciple of legality
dc.subject.keywordsnon-retroactivity
dc.subject.keywordsLatin-American jurisprudence
dc.subject.keywordsinternational crimes
dc.subject.keywordsamnesties
dc.subject.keywordsstatutory limitations
dc.titleInternational Crimes or Ordinary Crimes? The ‘Dual Classification of the Facts’ as an Interpretive Methodes
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