Jurist reports that the Spanish government is contemplating limiting the scope of its universal jurisdiction. The principle of universal jurisdiction does away with traditional conditions for a state wanting to exercise jurisdiction in criminal cases (such as for a personal or territorial condition to be present), and stipulates that the state has jurisdiction regardless of where the alleged offence took place, regardless of nationality of the alleged perpetrator and victim, and regardless of where the alleged victim and perpetrator reside. The principle was famously relied upon in the Pinochet case, where former the dictator of Chile Augusto Pinochet was arrested…