For over a decade, judicial accountability of mass human rights violations committed during the last civil-military dictatorship in Argentina (1976–1983) has been carried out in federal courts by regular judges, following the rules of the National Code of Criminal Procedure. Research on these trials has focused mainly on the victims and the accused. This article opens a different path by exploring the affective experiences of the judges presiding over and leading the trials. Based on interviews with 18 federal court judges and some participant observation, in this article we present a descriptive exploration of the judges’ experiences and sensemaking processes. We examine the complex interaction between the professional requirement to separate emotions from judgment and the emotional toll that these trials produce in the personal and professional lives of the judges. We end with short reflections on these crimes against humanity trials in the post-Transitional Justice context.

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论判断：在阿根廷反人类罪审判中管理情绪

十多年来，根据《国家刑事诉讼法》的规定，联邦法院对阿根廷最后一次军民独裁统治（1976-1983 年）期间发生的大规模侵犯人权行为进行司法问责。对这些审判的研究主要集中在受害者和被告身上。本文通过探讨主持和领导审判的法官的情感体验，开辟了一条不同的道路。基于对 18 位联邦法院法官的采访和一些参与观察，我们在本文中对法官的经历和意义建构过程进行了描述性探索。我们研究了将情绪与判断分开的职业要求与这些审判在法官的个人和职业生活中产生的情感损失之间的复杂相互作用。最后，我们对过渡时期司法背景下的这些危害人类罪审判进行了简短的反思。