EL DERECHO INTERNACIONAL DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS DESDE LA ÓPTICA DE LA CORTE SUPREMA DE JUSTICIA DE ARGENTINA

Abstract

The author analyzes the jurisprudential path of the Supreme Court of Justice in Argentina regarding to the International Human Rights Law and its relationship with Domestic Law, to mark the gradual metamorphosis that the judicial doctrine of the High Court has been experiencing in the matter. He also examines the strong impact that the constitutional reform of 1994 has resulted in the field of human rights in the Argentine legal scenario, the reception at the national level of conventionality control established by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the monitoring line, not always uniformly exhibited by the Supreme Court, regarding the judgments and advisory opinions of the Inter-American Court, the pronouncements of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and other quasi-judicial bodies belonging to the universal scheme of protection of fundamental rights.