Conventionality and Constitutionality: the Cases of Mexico and Spain
The presence of international conventions on human rights raises the issue concerning their eventual incompatibility with domestic law. The Mexican case is an example of so called “control of conventionality,” which may result in decisions not to apply domestic norms when their content is in inevita...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Boletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/13258 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.juridicas.unam.mx/index.php/derecho-comparado/article/view/13258 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Control of Constitutionality Control of Conventionality Human Rights control de constitucionalidad control de convencionalidad derechos humanos |
| Sumario: | The presence of international conventions on human rights raises the issue concerning their eventual incompatibility with domestic law. The Mexican case is an example of so called “control of conventionality,” which may result in decisions not to apply domestic norms when their content is in inevitable contradiction with convention mandates, as interpreted in international case law. In contrast, Spanish legal order establishes that internal norms must be in agreement with an interpretation of constitutional clauses that must derive from international convention mandates on human rights. This may eventually lead to a declaration of inconstitutionality of internal legal norms. Thus, in Spain what may be termed “control of constitutionality” replaces “control of conventionality”. |
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