Word: lawfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next Monday, almost a year after his arrest by British law enforcement authorities, former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's extradition trial will begin in London. In the months since his arrest, the intense debate about his case has, interestingly enough, not centered on whether he did what he is accused of. Indeed, the gravity of these accusations has been almost forgotten amid the flurry of debate about the case...
Pinochet's victims therefore went to Spain to search for the justice that was impossible to obtain in Chile. In asking another nation to prosecute, the victims were simply asking that Spain exercise a long recognized right--and obligation--under international law. Legal scholars have long held that customary international law permits any nation to try those who, like Pinochet, are accused of genocide or international terrorism. In the event that the nation where the acts occurred proves unable or unwilling to do so, third party nations have the right and obligation to prosecute...
Micah S. Meyers '00 is a history concentrator in Dunster House. He is a former employee of Garcs y de Prada, a Spanish law firm that represents the plaintiffs in the case against Pinochet...
Another reason for the funk: police headquarters itself, the building that ought to be the crown jewel of a law enforcement agency, is a bad place to work...
...Ying-jeou returned to his old stomping grounds at Harvard Law School, where he had picked up his doctorate nearly two decades earlier, last week. But Ma, the second popularly elected mayor of Taipei since 1967, came back to Cambridge a figure of global importance, whose career is pivotal to stability in Sino-Taiwanese relations...