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Radical Evil on Trial. By Carlos Santiago Nino. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 207. Index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Juan A. Millán
Juan A. Millán*
Affiliation:
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 93 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 548 - 551
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1999

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References

1 Diane Orentlicher, Settling Accounts: The Duty to Prosecute Human Rights Violations of a Prior Regime, 100 Yale L.J. 2537 (1991); Carlos S. Nino, The Duty to Prosecute Past Abuses of Human Rights Put into Context, 100 Yale L.J. 2619 (1991); Diane Orentlicher, A Reply to Professor Nino, 100 Yale L.J. 2641 (1991).

2 See Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Special Problems of a Duty to Prosecute: Derogation, Amnesties, Statutes of Limitation, and Superior Orders, in Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice 57, 59–60 (Naomi Roht-Arriaza ed., 1995).

3 Nino here relies on his earlier work, The Ethics of Human Rights (1991), which contains a much more rigorous discussion of the role of consent in his theory of punishment.

4 Alejandro M. Garro, Nine Years of Transition to Democracy in Argentina: Partial Failure or Qualified Success? 31 Colum. J. Transnat’l L. 1 (1993); Jaime Malamud-Goti, Punishing Human Rights Abuses in Fledgling Democracies: The Case of Argentina, in Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice, supra note 2, at 165.

5 Samuel P. Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991); Bruce Ackerman, The Future of Liberal Revolution (1992).