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100 Cornell L. Rev. 1069 (2014-2015)
Anti-Impunity and the Turn to Criminal Law in Human Rights

handle is hein.journals/clqv100 and id is 1097 raw text is: ANTI-IMPUNITY AND THE TURN TO CRIMINAL LAW IN HUMAN RIGHTS Karen Englet INTRODUCTION ................................................. 1070 I. OVERVIEW OF THE ANTI-IMPUNITY TREND ................. 1073 II. DOMESTIC PUNISHMENT AS INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS REMEDY ................................. 1079 A. Breakdown of the Public/Private Distinction ........ 1080 B. Invalidation of Amnesty Laws ....................... 1084 1. Truth, Peace, and Forgiveness Versus Justice: South Africa and Beyond .......................... 1087 2. Justice as Facilitating Truth and Perhaps Peace and Forgiveness: The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ........................... 1091 a. T ruth ....................................... 1097 b. Peace ....................................... 1099 c. Forgiveness ................................. 1102 3. The Influence of the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Other Jurisdictions ............................. 1103 4. The Persistence of Amnesties and of Human Rights Opposition to Them ................ 1106 III. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA ............................ 1112 IV. CONCERNS ABOUT THE TREND ........................... 1119 A. Individualization and Decontextualization .......... 1120 B. Conceptions of Economic Harm and Remedy ...... 1122 C. Alignment with the State ........................... 1124 D. The Production of History .......................... 1126 CONCLUSION ..................................................... 1127 t Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Founder & Co-director, Ber- nard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas School of Law. I am grateful to Adeno Addis, Antony Anghie, Daniel Brinks, Nathalie Davidson, Dennis Davis, Ariel Dulitzky, Cianan Good, Neville Hoad, David Kennedy, Duncan Kennedy, Zina Miller, Peter Rosenblum andJos6 Zalaquett for their comments on various drafts of this article. I also benefitted enormously from feedback on presentations of the project at faculty workshops and colloquia at the University of Utah College of Law, Tulane Law School, University of Texas, Harvard Law School, Instituto Tecnol6gico Aut6nomo de M6xico, University of Cape Town, University of Diego Portales (Santiago, Chile), and Melbourne Law School. Finally, I am appreciative of Maddy Dwertman for outstanding research and editing assistance during the development of the project, and to Nicholas Bruno for providing excellent research assistance in its final stages. 1069