CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OVERSIGHT OF INTERNATIONAL TREATIES: A RESTRICTION ON JURISDICTION OR A REALISTIC APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS?
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In the context of legal globalization and modeling of legal norms, international treaties are increasingly used as a source of international and national norms, especially in the light of the decline in the State's "reserved space" and the regulation of international norms on issues that were, in the near past, purely national accountability.
Constitutional censorship thus emerges as an effective means of maintaining consistency between legal norms of international origin and those of internal origin under the problematic relationship of the Treaty's entry into the national legal system Control of the constitutionality of treaties is characterized by specificity, influenced by a set of features, namely.
Our intervention will attempt to investigate these sections by analyzing the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court under the Constitutional Amendment of 2020.
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