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Universal Jurisdiction for the Protection of Fundamental Human Rights in Chilean Case Law (A Commentary of the Supreme Court Ruling Number 17.393-2015)

Authors

  • Javier Gallego Saade Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile
  • Juan Francisco Lobo Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile
No. 12 (2016): Anuario de Derechos Humanos 2016
https://doi.org/10.5354/adh.v0i12.42746

Abstract

The Chilean Supreme Court, in its ruling 17.393-2015 of 18 November 2015, resolved that the Chilean Government (specifically, the Chancery) should demand that the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights meet in Caracas, Venezuela, in order to ascertain the health status and the conditions of the arrest of Leopoldo López and Daniel Ceballos, identified in the ruling as political prisoners. The motive behind such a request is the obligation to protect the fundamental right to life, equality, privacy, petition, and freedom of association, established in Article 19 of the Chilean Constitution –numbers 1, 2, 4, 14 and 15, respectively. The Court considered that the obligation to protect fundamental rights imposed on the Chilean State by the Constitution allowed it to extend the validity of the norms that establish such rights extraterritorially. The Court called this power ‘Universal Jurisdiction for the Protection of Fundamental Human Rights’. This paper evaluates this decision from the perspective of constitutional (I), international (II), and criminal law (III). The thesis of this paper is that the Court runs into confusion and makes serious dogmatic mistakes in each of these areas.

Keywords:

Appeal for legal protection, constitutional rights, human rights, international jurisdiction, international community

Author Biographies

Javier Gallego Saade, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile

Abogado, Universidad de Chile. Profesor de Derecho Público y Ética Profesional (UAI). Profesor de Derecho Penal Internacional (U. de Chile, UAI). javier.gallego@uai.cl.

Juan Francisco Lobo, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile

Abogado, Universidad de Chile. Profesor de Derecho Penal Internacional (U. de Chile, UAI), Derechos Humanos y Teoría del Derecho (UDP) y Derecho Internacional Público (UAI)

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Gallego Saade, J., & Francisco Lobo, J. (2016). Universal Jurisdiction for the Protection of Fundamental Human Rights in Chilean Case Law (A Commentary of the Supreme Court Ruling Number 17.393-2015). Anuario De Derechos Humanos, (12), 135–151. https://doi.org/10.5354/adh.v0i12.42746
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