1st Edition
Amnesties, Pardons and Transitional Justice Spain's Pact of Forgetting
By Roldan Jimeno
Copyright 2018
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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In a consolidated democracy, amnesties and pardons do not sit well with equality and a separation of powers; however, these measures have proved useful in extreme circumstances, such as transitions from dictatorships to democracies, as has occurred in Greece, Portugal and Spain. Focusing on Spain, this book analyses the country's transition, from the antecedents from 1936 up to the present,... Read more
Introduction
1 Background to Francoist Spain: Granting pardons to the defeated in the war and enemies of the regime
2 The beginnings of the transition
3 The 1977 Amnesty Law and subsequent clemency measures
4 Amnesty during the post-transition years (1982–2007)
5 Amnesty after the Historical Memory Law (2007–2016)
Conclusion
Biography
Roldán Jimeno is a Senior Lecturer in Legal History at the Public University of Navarre, Spain.
