Resumen de International Criminal Law by other means: the quasi-criminal Jurisdiction of the Human Rights Courts

Alexandra Huneeus

• Although the regional human rights courts have no criminal jurisdiction and cannot find individual responsibility, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regularly orders states to investigate and punish gross human rights violations, and monitors the progress of the resulting prosecutions. Today, it is monitoring the progress of fifty-one prosecutions across fifteen states for acts that amount to international crimes. The article explores the evolution of such quasicriminal jurisdiction in the regional rights courts, and juxtaposes this development to the work of the international criminal tribunals.