An histoire juridique commune? historiographical frames in European and Inter-American human rights narratives

An histoire juridique commune? historiographical frames in European and Inter-American human rights narratives

In every human rights court procedure, arguments related to history – tacitly or explicitly, willingly or unwittingly – are rehearsed by legal professionals, especially in difficult cases that attempt to bring closure to ‘historical wrongs’. With this in mind, in this article, I interrogate the ways in which historiographical frames underpin human rights narratives, focusing on cases concerning authoritarianism and state violence in the European…