The Image of The Inter-American Court of Human Rights as an Agent of Democratic Transformation

A Tool of Self-Validation

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ID3783490
AuthorsNatalia Torres Zúñiga (0000-0002-0541-1082, University of Oslo, corresponding author)
Year2021
Issue46
Pages483-504
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAraucaria (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1575-6823 • E-ISSN: 2340-2199
PublisherEditorial Universidad de Sevilla (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.12795/araucaria.2021.i46.24
OpenAlexW3145774898
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

This paper provides a critical analysis of the premises and arguments put forward by the Ius Constitutionale Commune en America Latina project to ground the image of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights as an agent of democratic transformation. It highlights three critical aspects: 1. the profile of the Court is constructed by legal scholars relying on self-validation and selfreferentiality, 2. that image validates the idea that lawyers and the judiciary are agents of transformation ruling over local spaces from above, thereby discarding people as the central subjects of change and democratization, and 3. the concept of representative democracy becomes a device that secures the self-validating dynamics of the image of the Court as democracy builder

Democracy · Democratization · Human rights · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies · Computer Science · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal processes and jurisprudence · Artificial Intelligence

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