La defectuosa construcción del lawfare como mito en Brasil y Argentina: entre la pesadilla y el noble sueño de la neutralidad política en la justicia penal

• Autor: Laise, Luciano D.
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/196989
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/iusetveritas/article/view/28143/26103; https://doi.org/10.18800/iusetveritas.202302.011
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Corruption; Hybrid war; Political myth; Legal argumentation; Right to due process; Lawfare; Corrupción; Guerra híbrida; Mito político; Argumentación jurídica; Derecho al debido proceso; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.05.00

The notoriety that criminal proceedings against Latin-American political figures have acquired led some to argue that such proceedings constitute a perverse attack against popular leaders who oppose the neoliberal agendas of the global north. Before this issue, in this article I intend to systematically reconstruct the specialized literature on the concept of lawfare. Then I will outline both mythical and fallacious nature of many of the explanations and implications for so-called lawfare. Since those criticisms, I will highlight two relevant topics: (i) the necessary respect for the basic procedural guarantees for any person who is accused of serious crimes against public administration, and (ii) the inevitable political dimension of legal interpretation.