Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cepeda, Manuel José

Titel

The Internationalization of Constitutional Law: A Note on the Colombian Case

Ist Teil von

• Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, 2008-01, Vol.41 (1), p.61-77

Ort / Verlag

Institut für Internationale Angelegenheiten der Universität Hamburg

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This note describes the relevance of International Human Rights Law (IHRL) and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) for constitutional adjudication in Colombia by the Constitutional Court. As elements of the so-called "constitutionality block", IHRL and IHL have Abstracts played an important role in the Colombian constitutional order, which becomes manifest in several material functions: (1) the definition of the scope of constitutional rights, (2) the identification of specific non-enumerated rights, (3) the identification of special needs and basic standards of protection, (4) the identification of minimum standards of protection, (5) the identification of specific prohibitions that protect rights, (6) the provision of criteria for reviewing decrees that declare states of emergency, (7) the provision of grounds for the constitutional enforcement of social rights, and (8) the national projection and enforcement of preventive measures adopted by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Each one of these functions is illustrated in this note with representative judgments by the Constitutional Court, in order to conclude that IHRL and IHL have borne a significant impact upon decisions concerning both the preservation and public order and the protection of rights in diverse contexts and settings, causing a very high material incidence upon the domestic legal system.