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Reviewing: Elena Maculan, Los crímenes internacionales en la jurisprudencia latinoamericana, Madrid: Marcial Pons, Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales, 2019, 320 pp.

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This book is an exceptionally high-quality piece of work on the role played by domestic courts in Latin America in the development, codification, implementation of International Criminal Law. In particular, this book analyses how these courts have contributed to the definition of some international crimes, their elements, and their scope of application and, in so doing, have granted a better place to the legality principle as applied by continental legal systems. The book’s focus on Latin America is justified by the considerable amount of mass atrocities registered in the continent over the twentieth century by the hands of authoritarian regimes.

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  1. Maculan E., Los crímenes internacionales en la jurisprudencia latinoamericana (Marcial Pons, Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales 2019) 29–87.

  2. ibid 46–48.

  3. ibid 56–60.

  4. ibid 42, 49, 53.

  5. ibid 70–71.

  6. ibid 76 and 86.

  7. ibid 82 and 87.

  8. Ambos K., Malarino E., Elsner G. (eds.), Jurisprudencia latinoamericana sobre derecho penal internacional, (KAS 2008); Ambos K., Malarino E., Elsner G. (eds.), Justicia de transición (KAS 2009); Ambos K., Malarino E., Steiner C. (eds.), Sistema Interamericano de Protección de los Derechos humanos y Derecho penal internacional. Tomo I, (KAS 2010); Ambos K., Malarino E., Steiner C. (eds.), Sistema Interamericano de Protección de los Derechos humanos y Derecho penal internacional. Tomo II (KAS 2011); Ambos K., Malarino E., Steiner C. (eds.), Sistema Interamericano de Protección de los Derechos humanos y Derecho penal internacional. Tomo III (KAS 2013).

  9. Maculan (n 1) 92.

  10. ibid 92–93.

  11. ibid 95.

  12. ibid 96.

  13. ibid 99.

  14. ibid.

  15. ibid 112.

  16. ibid 118–124.

  17. ibid 125.

  18. ibid 130.

  19. ibid 123 and 129.

  20. ibid 131.

  21. ibid 136.

  22. Peruvian Supreme Court, Special Criminal Chamber, 7 April 2009, Alberto Fujimori Fujimori, Case No. A-V. 19-2001.

  23. Maculan (n 1) 142.

  24. ibid 152.

  25. ibid 156.

  26. ibid 160.

  27. Colombian Constitutional Court, 14 February 2001, Demanda de inconstitucionalidad contra el art. 322.a (parcial) del Código Penal, creado por el articulo primero de la Ley 589 de 2000 ‘por medio de la ced ual se tipifica el genocidio, la desaparición forzada, el desplazamiento forzado y la tortura; y se dictan otras disposiciones’, C-177/01, fundamento 5.

  28. Colombian Constitutional Court, 2 May 2002, Demanda de inconstitucionalidad contra el art. 165 (parcial) de la Ley 599 de 2000 ‘por la cual se expide Código Penal’, C-317/2002, fundamento 2.d).

  29. Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture (9 December 1985, entered into force 28 February 1987) OAS Treaty Series No 67. Colombian Constitutional Court, 22 February 2005, Sentencia C-148/05: Demanda de inconstitucionalidad contra las expresiones “grave” contenida en el numeral 1º del artículo 101 y ‘graves’ contenida en los artículos 137 y 178 de la Ley 599 de 2000 “por la cual se expide el Código Penal”, C-148/2005, fundamento 4.2.

  30. Colombian Constitutional Court (n 27).

  31. Maculan (n 1) 178–198.

  32. ibid 203.

  33. ibid 214.

  34. ibid 216.

  35. ibid 217–218.

  36. ibid 220–221.

  37. ibid 222.

  38. ibid 229.

  39. ibid 231.

  40. Article 21(1)(b) ICC Statute.

  41. Maculan (n 1) 231.

  42. ibid 235.

  43. ibid.

  44. ibid 240.

  45. ibid 246.

  46. ibid 248-49.

  47. Calamandrei P., ‘Il Giudice e lo Storico’ Rivista di Diritto Processuale Civile XVII (1939) 105–28.

  48. Maculan (n 1) 251.

  49. ibid 252.

  50. Fiandaca G. and Musco E., Diritto penale parte generale (Seventh edition, Zanichelli 2014) 46.

  51. Maculan (n 1) 279.

  52. ibid 264–66.

  53. See, e.g., Cassese A., Lineamenti di diritto internazionale penale (Diritto sostanziale) (Il Mulino 2005) 187.

  54. Malarino E., ‘Jurisprudencia latinoamericana sobre derecho penal internacional’ in Ambos, Malarino, Elsner, Jurisprudencia latinoamericana (n 8) 421, 442–48.

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Pecorella, G. Reviewing: Elena Maculan, Los crímenes internacionales en la jurisprudencia latinoamericana, Madrid: Marcial Pons, Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales, 2019, 320 pp.. Crim Law Forum 32, 343–351 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10609-021-09419-z

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