Abstract

This review essay critiques The Pinochet Effect, by Prof. Naomi Roht-Arriaza. Her text follows the complex and phenomenal ripples in international and domestic legal proceedings that follow directly and indirectly from the Pinochet litigation in the Spanish courts, particularly after the decision by the British courts to permit extradition of the former president of Chile to Spain from England to stand trial for crimes including torture, alleged to have been committed in Chile. The essay updates Prof. Roht-Arriza's splendid research while providing a different sense of the context in which the original prosecutions began than that which is offered by her.