Obligaciones internacionales y control de convencionalidad

Abstract

The "conventionality control" ordered by the Interamerican Court of Human Rights, specially in the cases "Almonacid Arellano" and "Trabajadores Cesados del Congreso", disposes that the national judges must consider not valid the domestic norms that infringe the American Convention of Human Rights, or the jurisprudence of the Interamerican Court. That control is an important instrument in order to edify an interamerican ius commune about human and constitutional rights. Its success depends on the legitimacy of the resolutions of the Interamerican Court, and the disposition of the national tribunals.