ABSTRACT
The drama associated with the attempt to hold General Augusto Pinochet, the notorious former Chilean head of state (1973-1990), legally accountable for crimes of state was widely shared around the world. Typical of the comments on this legal pursuit of Pinochet were the following: “breathtaking,”1 “a decision without precedent . . . [a] beginning for what can and should be justice without borders,”2 and a course of litigation that has “already revolutionized international law.”3
