The Influence of Decisions by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the Criminal Law of Member States
Report on El Salvador
Keywords:
Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, jurisprudence, El Salvador, Compliance of condamnatory sentenceAbstract
El Salvador is one of the few countries in Latin America proclaiming explicitly in its Constitution, the existence and validity of an international legal system with supra legal hierarchy. Since 1978, it is part of the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) and in 1995, it recognized the litigious competition of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR). However, three of the first four condemnatory sentences - existing until December 2012 - of this Court against this country, they have not been fulfilled regard as the dispositive part in continue ordering or restart the respective criminal proceedings and exceed the limitations or obstacles of fact and law that prevent the compliance investigations effectively. This study is about these and others phenomena, while presents an overview of the influence of the resolutions of the Inter-American Court (IAC) in criminal law and criminal procedure of El Salvador, and analyzed whether the decisions of these bodies are fulfilled in the internal field and in what extent they are. It is divided into six parts that are developed, among other topics, the most relevant aspects of the incorporation of international law, especially of the ACHR, domestically, including recognition and hierarchy of international treaties in the Salvadoran legal system; direct application of the ACHR and recognition in the domestic law of the state obligation to comply with the decisions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
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