Janus in the aftermath of post-dictatorial societies: No international justice in the crimes committed during the Spanish Civil war and Franco’s regime.

Abstract

In the present paper I aim to analyze how the Spanish legal system is dealing with the crimes committed during the Civil War and Franco’s regime, as well as answering the question of how post-national human rights law is manifested in this case. Is Spain in this case coming into terms with international justice? I claim that there is a collision due to the legal pluralism and the failure in the vernacularization process of human rights. Further I state that there is a need to learn from the experiences of the past and of other countries.