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A 5 page research paper that discusses the effectiveness of social movements taking issues into the international judicial arena. The writer argues that the international justice system can be instrumental in promoting social causes and reforms. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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against Augusto Pinochet in 1998. Pinochet, the Chilean dictator who overthrew President Salvador Allende in 1973, was the first dictator to be humbled before an international justice system since the
Nuremberg trials (The Pinochet Case). While in London, Pinochet was arrested pursuant to a case that had been made against him in Spain for crimes against humanity. When Pinochet
finally returned to Chile, he faced 200 accusations of crimes, this time in Chilean courts and in 2001, Judge Juan Guzman placed Pinochet under house arrest (The Pinochet Case). Due
to the judicial activity within the international arena, the Chilean justice system was no longer afraid of broaching Pinochets power, and was compelled by world opinion to act. As this
illustrates, the international justice system can be instrumental in promoting social causes and reforms. Why social movements utilize international legal strategies Advocates for pay equity have taken cases to
court, "not because they confine their sense of right to official verdicts or think official legal institutions are just," but because legal tactics have provided opportunities for leverage in a
world that consists of unequal resources (McCann 232). As this suggests, there are numerous reasons why social movement proponents might decide to utilize legal strategies in the international arena in addition
to domestic legal strategies. One of the principle reasons has to do with why legal strategies are sought in the first place, which has to do with the "dynamic court"
view of the role of judiciary. This perspective sees the courts as uniquely situated in the political systems in that the courts are in a position to act where, often,
other institutions are politically unable to proceed (Rosenberg 22). This is because courts are free from the political process and institutional arrangements that are designed to stymie change. Elected
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