Janus in the aftermath of post-dictatorial societies: No international justice in the crimes committed during the Spanish Civil war and Franco’s regime.

In the present paper I aim to analyze how the Spanish legal system is dealing with the crimes committed during the Civil War and Franco’s regime, as well as answering the question of how post-national human rights law is manifested in this case. Is Spain in this case coming into terms with internati...

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Main Author: Martínez, Ainhoa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=5402953
Source:Revista Electrónica Direito e Sociedade - REDES, ISSN 2318-8081, Vol. 3, Nº. 2, 2015, pags. 7-13
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Summary: In the present paper I aim to analyze how the Spanish legal system is dealing with the crimes committed during the Civil War and Franco’s regime, as well as answering the question of how post-national human rights law is manifested in this case. Is Spain in this case coming into terms with international justice? I claim that there is a collision due to the legal pluralism and the failure in the "vernacularization process" of human rights. Further I state that there is a need to learn from the experiences of the past and of other countries.