1 octobre 2022
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Alejandro Lerena García, « Reconciling justice and legality in transitional justice contexts », HAL-SHS : sciences politiques, ID : 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1264
The dialectic tension between the principles of justice and legality is an intrinsic component of criminal law. When serious human rights violations committed by a previous authoritarian regime are prosecuted in domestic legal systems, this tension becomes even more evident. Within the framework of a democratic state under the rule of law this issue, inherent to transitional justice, can find various solutions leading to radically different results: from impunity to prosecutions without fair trial guarantees. The conflict between these two principles is analysed in this paper, as well as legal techniques and flexible interpretations aiming the reconciliation of the competing demands of justice and legality in transitional justice contexts.