Art as Social Consciousness:

Bindman, David

doi:10.2307/j.ctt18mvp14.10

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“…In the other, the attorney general declined to order the immediate arrest of Pinochet and instead initiated a police investigation, which gave him time to flee the country. [FN87] There are several possible explanations why England arrested Pinochet on the basis of Spain's international arrest warrant and extradition request despite its own reluctance to arrest and prosecute him. First, extradition "is a routine and normal process between the European states which are parties to the 1957 European Convention on Extradition ... [and whose] administrative authorities are accustomed to the procedures and would not be influenced by political sensitivities or by lack of familiarity with international human rights law."…”

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The Diplomacy of Universal Jurisdiction: The Political Branches and the Transnational Prosecution of International Crimes

Langer

2011

Am. j. int. law

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Under universal jurisdiction, any state in the world may prosecute and try the core international crimes— crimes against humanity, genocide, torture, and war crimes—without any territorial, personal, or national-interest link to the crime in question whenit was committed.The jurisdictional claim is predicated on the atrocious nature of the crime and legally based on treaties or customary international law. Unlike the regime of international criminal tribunals created by the United Nations Security Council and the enforcement regime of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the regime of universal jurisdiction is completely decentralized.

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confidence: 99%