Abstract
This chapter analyses the nature of legal changes produced by the anti-impunity norm, an emerging doctrine in international law. As its name would suggest, the anti-impunity norm seeks to ensure that perpetrators of human rights violations and serious international crimes, such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, do not evade accountability for their actions. Relatedly, it also seeks to ensure that victims of rights violations and international crimes enjoy access to justice and suitable reparations, and that societies afflicted with impunity suitably recognize and memorialize past violations. As such, the anti-impunity norm is not only infused with key tenets of international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and transitional justice; it is a deeply political and moral agenda too.
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