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De Leopoldo López

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2017

Nicholas Petrie
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 110 , Issue 4 , October 2016 , pp. 781 - 787
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

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References

1 Corte Suprema de Justicia [C.S.J.] [Supreme Court], 18 noviembre 2015, “López, Leopoldo,” Rol de la causa: 17.393-2015 (Chile), at http://suprema.poderjudicial.cl/SITSUPPORWEB/ (in Spanish) (limited access). Quotations below of this decision were translated by the author; unofficial translations of all three decisions in the case are on file with the author at .

2 C.S.J., 28 diciembre 2015, “López, Leopoldo,” Rol de la causa: 17.393-2015, protección, at http://suprema.poderjudicial.cl/SITSUPPORWEB/ (in Spanish) (limited access).

3 Letter from Elizabeth Abi-Mershed, deputy executive secretary, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, to Jorge Saéz Martín, secretary, Supreme Court of Chile (Feb. 4, 2016) (translation on file with author), quoted in CIDH desconoce “jerarquía” de la Corte Suprema de Chile tras fallo a favor de opositor venezolano, Emol.com, Feb. 16, 2016, at http://www.emol.com (search “CIDH jerarquía”).

4 Human Rights Council, Opinions Adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, No. 26/2014, UN Doc. A/HRC/WGAD/2014/26 (Nov. 3, 2014) (adopted Aug. 26, 2014) (López); id., No. 30/2014, UN Doc. A/HRC/WGAD/2014/30 (Nov. 3, 2014) (adopted Aug. 28, 2014) (Ceballos).

5 Press Release, UN Office High Commissioner for Hum. Rts., UN Human Rights Chief Urges Venezuela to Release Arbitrarily Detained Protestors and Politicians (Oct. 20, 2014), at http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID_15187.

6 Video: Maria Victoria Villegas Figueroa, Lawyer, and plaintiff in López & Ceballos Case, Address at Princeton University Conference: Human Rights in the Americas: Are We Serious? (May 6, 2016), at http://web.princeton.edu/sites/jmadison/calendar/videos.html [hereinafter Princeton Conference].

7 Corte de Apelaciones de Valparaíso [C. Apel.] [court of appeals], 21 febrero 2015, “Ledezma, Antonio,” Rol de la causa: 60-2015, amparo, at http://corte.poderjudicial.cl/SITCORTEPORWEB/ (in Spanish) (limited access).

8 COnstitutional Law in Chile, paras. 505–09 (Javier Couso et al. eds., 2013).

9 Constitución Política de la República de Chile Art. 19(1).

10 C. Apel. de Valparaíso, 28 septiembre 2015, “López, Leopoldo,” Rol de la causa: 1850-2015, protección, 6th–10th secs., at C. Apel., supra note 7 (in Spanish) (limited access).

11 Video: Carlos Aránguiz, Judge of Supreme Court of Chile, Keynote Address at Princeton Conference, supra note 6 (May 5, 2016).

12 See supra text at notes 2–3.

13 28 U.S.C. §1350 (2015).

14 Note that publicists and courts do not use these terms consistently, and “jurisdiction to adjudicate” is also used.

15 Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, with Commentaries Thereto, Art. 4 & cmt. (1), in Int’l Law Comm’n, Rep. on the Work of Its Fifty-Third Session, [2001] 2 Y.B. Int’l L. Comm’n 30, 40, UN Doc. A/CN.4/SER.A/2001/Add.1 (Part 2) [hereinafter ILC Articles].

16 S.S. Lotus (Fr. v. Turk.), 1927 PCIJ (ser. A) No. 10.

17 Id., pp. 18–19.

18 Arrest Warrant of 11 April 2000 (Dem. Rep. Congo v. Belg.), 2002 ICJ REP. 3, 78, para. 51 (Feb. 14) (joint sep. op., Higgins, Kooijmans, Buergenthal, JJ.).

19 S.S. Lotus, supra note 16, at 18–19.

20 The strongest claim for universal civil jurisdiction under treaty law relates to torture, from the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Art.14, Dec. 10, 1984, S. Treaty Doc. No. 100-20 (1988), 1465 UNTS 85. See Comm. Against Torture, General Comment No. 3 (2012): Implementation of Article 14 by States Parties, para. 22, UN Doc. CAT/C/GC/3 (Nov. 19, 2012). But even that is questionable. See Jones v. Ministry of Interior Al-Mamlaka Al-Arabiya AS Saudiya (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) [2006] UKHL 26, [2007] 1 AC 270, para. 20 (Lord Bingham), para. 46 (Lord Hoffmann) (appeal taken from Eng.).

21 Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 133 S.Ct. 1659 (2013).

22 Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692, 762 (2004) (Breyer, J., concurring).

23 ILC Articles, supra note 15, Art. 48.

24 Id., Arts. 30, 48(2) & cmts. (11)–(12) (reparation); pt. 3, ch. II, cmt. (8), & Art. 54 & cmts. (1– 6) (countermeasures).

25 Cedric Ryngaert, Jurisdiction in International Law 161–62 (2d ed. 2015).