1st Edition
Justice for Atrocities Dialogues and Encounters between Latin America and Europe
Introduction: Justice for atrocities: Dialogues and encounters between Latin America and Europe
Marco Longobardo and Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo
1. Leadership responsibility in non-state criminal organisations. The rediscovery of indirect perpetration through an organisation by Latin American courts and the ICC
Harmen van der Wilt
2. The role of Criminal Justice in dealing with past atrocities in the Spanish and Argentine transitions: Common grounds, but different pathways
Elena Maculan
3. The ping-pong strategy: Confronting atrocities from the exile
Valeria Vegh Weis
4. Impunity in cases of serious human rights violations: Three relevant aspects of contention in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Harold Bertot Triana and Elena C. Díaz Galán
5. Access to justice for atrocities in the comparison of land-mark cases on state immunity in Brazil and Italy
Marco Longobardo and Federica Violi
6. Comparing universal jurisdiction in Europe and in Latin America: A vehicle for international justice or for colonial reckoning?
Alexandra Fowler
7. The intercontinental dialogue on enforced disappearances: The case of massive disappearances during hostilities
Ioanna Pervou
Biography
Marco Longobardo is Reader in International Law at the University of Westminster, UK. He undertook his doctoral studies at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He is the author of The Use of Armed Force in Occupied Territory (2018), for which he was awarded the 2021 Paul Reuter Prize. For his scholarship on general international law, the law of occupation, peace and security, and the protection of community interests, he has received prizes from the American Society of International Law, the Asian Society of International Law, and the Italian Society of International and EU Law. He is the Reviews Editor of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies and a member of the advisory boards of the International Community Law Review and the Journal du Droit Transnational.
Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo is currently pursuing a second doctoral degree of DPhil in Law at the University of Oxford, UK. He is also a tutor in international law and tort law at the University of Oxford as well as a tutor in the Stanford in Oxford program. He holds a PhD from Abo Akademi University, Finland, an LLM from Columbia University, USA, and an LLB from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He has also served in different capacities at, inter alia, the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the United Nations, the University of Oslo, etc.
