Artículo sobre el activismo judicial en la Corte IDH

Este reporte fue realizado por Oswaldo Ruiz-Chiriboga.

En el último volumen de la Revista International Criminal Law Review (Vol 12, No.  4, 2012 , pp. 665-695), Ezequiel Malarino publicó el artículo titulado “Judicial Activism, Punitivism and Supranationalisation: Illiberal and Antidemocratic Tendencies of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights”.  Este es el resumen:

“This article takes a critical look at the following three key characteristics in recent judgements of the Inter-American Court: judicial activism, punitivism and supranationalisation. First, it seeks to illustrate that the Inter-American Court has modified in some significant regards the legal framework agreed upon by State parties (judicial activism); second, that this activism has undermined some of the liberal guarantees limiting the State's power in criminal matters and has led to the creation of a law of exception (punitivism, or illiberal and contra conventionem judicial activism); third, that the Court, on the basis of the Convention's provision on reparations, has required States to adopt measures that negatively affect their sovereignty, and has thus become dangerously close to acting as legislator, judge and supreme administrative authority of the American States (supranationalisation)”.