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OVALLE FAVELA, José. The Influence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Decisions on the Internal Laws of the Latinamerican Countries. Bol. Mex. Der. Comp. [online]. 2012, vol.45, n.134, pp.595-623. ISSN 2448-4873.

In this paper the author analyzes the influence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights judgments on the recent development of the internal laws of the Latin-American countries. For this purpose he treats the creation and functions of the Inter-American Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He also studies the composition of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, its adjudicatory and advisory jurisdiction and the characteristics of its judgments. He also considers the conventional review at an international level by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and at a domestic level by the powers of each State, particularly by the judges. Finally, the author analyzes five specific cases.

Palabras llave : judgments; Inter-American Court of Human Rights; supremacy of the international law; conventional review; cases.

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