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10 Gonz. J. Int'l L. 33 (2006-2007)
Justice through Litigation: The Center for Justice and Accountability

handle is hein.journals/gjil10 and id is 33 raw text is: JUSTICE THROUGH LITIGATION: THE CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY Matt Eisenbrandt * Good morning. I'm going to talk about the legacy of Nuremberg as it is being implemented here in the United States, in particular through the work that I do for the Center of Justice and Accountability. As Naomi mentioned, I think the key idea that came out of Nuremberg is individual accountability and a part of that I think is the notion of what we now call command responsibility - that the people at the top are as responsible as those who actually carried out the crimes. I very much liked the quote about these are not the people who have blood on their hands because they won't do that. And that's what always happens. Those that are the commanders at the top, in rare instances, do they have blood on their hands, but their defense is always, 'I had nothing to do with it. These were soldiers acting out on their own, this was not any sort of scheme that we had. I didn't give any orders and I certainly didn't know anything about it.' And so I think that's the other important step in addition to just individual accountability, also command responsibility, this is the idea that came out of Nuremberg. Additionally, the idea of universal jurisdiction that David just mentioned; I think this grew out of Nuremberg and the subsequent important human rights advances after World War II the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention. This idea that not only can people be prosecuted anywhere that they're found, but they must be prosecuted. The idea that a country where a particular human rights abuser is found has to either extradite that person to a country that is going to prosecute him or has to prosecute that person itself. * Matt Eisenbrandt is the Litigation Director of the Center for Justice & Accountability in San Francisco. CJA works to deter torture and other severe human rights abuses around the world by helping survivors hold their persecutors accountable through civil suits in the United States and criminal prosecutions abroad. Matt was CJA's lead counsel and a member of the trial team in the successful trials of former Salvadoran commander Nicolas Carranza, Honduran military intelligence chief Juan Lopez Grijalba, and Alvaro Saravia, one of the organizers of the assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero.

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