INTRODUCTION. ABOUT THE LEGAL REFORMS OF UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION IN SPAIN

Abstract

The evolution on the legal reforms adopted by the Spanish government about universal jurisdiction admits that those pragmatic (but non-realistic) critics were right when they expected a short trajectory for these reforms. Their insistence on the difficulties related to the effectiveness understood ideally with a note of an inexorable imposition attributed to legal phenomenons— is not sufficient to refute its value as a condition of legitimacy of those phenomenons. In any case, the fight against the impunity of those behaviors being grave vulnerations of human rights requires a determined political will and clear legal instruments. None of these requirements seems to be met in the Spanish case currently