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- Title
Amnesties in Strasbourg.
- Authors
Jackson, Miles
- Abstract
This article concerns the permissibility of amnesties under the ECHR. It argues that when an amnesty case comes to Strasbourg, as it probably will, there is a good chance that the Court will make a serious error. That error will be to hold that the Convention requires the prosecution of the gravest human rights abuses in all circumstances – it will be to invalidate the amnesty. In part, such an approach will likely be informed by an assumption that each of the duties that flows from an absolute right is itself absolute. That assumption, combined with the way that the Court has specified the prosecutorial duty, would prevent the Court from taking into account powerful countervailing interests in play during peace negotiations. These countervailing interests mean that a claim that amnesties for the gravest wrongs are always impermissible is unsustainable.
- Subjects
AMNESTY (International law); EUROPEAN Convention on Human Rights; PROSECUTION (International law); JUDICIAL error; HUMAN rights violations -- Lawsuits &; claims; INTERNATIONAL mediation; NATURAL law; EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights
- Publication
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2018, Vol 38, Issue 3, p451
- ISSN
0143-6503
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ojls/gqy017