Abstract This dissertation aims to understand how the domestic high courts in Latin America rely on the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The “relationship between courts” is a phenomenon that happens in domestic and international politics when domestic high courts start to resist or follow international jurisprudence....
Most scholars think of courts as a single category of adjudicative bodies or triadic dispute adjudication. But courts play a variety of roles in the domestic political system. Increasingly, the roles and tasks delegated to International Courts (ICs) mimic in form and content the roles and tasks delegated to courts...