Decision-Makers in the Dock: How Trials, Human Rights Advocacy and International Law are Shaping the Justice Norm

Booth Walling Carrie
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Booth Walling Carrie: Albion College

New Global Studies, 2012, vol. 6, issue 3, 26

Abstract: The mid-1980s marks the start of what has become a rapid shift towards new norms and practices of providing more accountability for human rights violations through the use of trials. This dramatic increase in human rights prosecutions is the direct result of the activism of the human rights movement. The increase in trials in turn has aided the development of international criminal law and has promoted the formal institutionalization of new accountability standards for international organizations. This article traces the emergence and diffusion of the justice norm. Then using two sets of case studies it examines how international law and human rights activism have interacted to create new opportunities for domestic prosecution in Argentina and the process through which the United Nations came to adopt formal standards on prosecutions and amnesties

Keywords: human rights; transitional justice; trials; international norms; advocacy; Argentina; United Nations; criminal accountability; international law (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1515/1940-0004.1181

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