Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:34:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eduardo Tambelini Brasileiro.pdf: 745696 bytes, checksum: 30f99632fc344015bc537742be09c9e2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-01 / This thesis covered the influence of human rights in relation to the international treaties merged in the Brazilian law. For this to be achieved, the evolution of human rights was highlighted, as well as its importance and reflection in the national and international setting. In the Brazilian law, human rights are fundamental in a society that is considered impartial and is characterized by solidarity, being strictly defended by the Federal Constitution of 1988. In the international setting, this situation was not different. The human rights have been proved to be a powerful shaping instrument of the sovereign States, setting the limits and boundaries to be followed as the way of elevating the human being as the heart of the international legal system. Facing the importance and relevance of the international treaties, the conventional phenomenon and its integration in the domestic law have been studied. Therefore, the main concern of this project was to make evident the reflex of the defense of human rights in the analysis of relations between the international and domestic legal systems, emphasizing the existence of antimonies between them and also their solutions, especially those regarding the existing conflict between Brazil s Federal Republic Constitution of 1988 and the Pact San Jose of Costa Rica, concentrating on the possibility of civil arrest caused by indebtedness. This treaty was rightly validated in Brazil and it examines the human rights issue. Through a bibliographical research on this normative conflict, criteria were obtained in order to be used as a solution for the antinomy between the national law and the international treaty. The Constitution of 1988 acknowledges the hypothesis of civil arrest for the unfaithful trustee. However, the Pact of San Jose of Costa Rica does not grant it. The analysis of this conflict is highlighted by its solution achieved by specific criteria related to human rights, since the Pact of San Jose of Costa Rica is an international treaty that considers these rights, and that it has a distinctive judicial hierarchy granted by the Federal Constitution itself. The results and conclusions show that the procedure that favors the individual is the one that prevails, being this the international treaty, since it has been granted a constitutional hierarchy. However, this positioning deals with a divergence in its doctrine and legal system. / Esta dissertação abordou a influência dos direitos humanos frente aos tratados internacionais incorporados ao direito brasileiro. Para tanto, destacou a evolução dos direitos humanos, sua importância e reflexos no cenário nacional e internacional. No direito brasileiro, os direitos humanos são imperativos a uma sociedade justa e solidária, sendo defendidos a rigor na Constituição Federal de 1988. No cenário internacional, não aconteceu diferente. Os direitos humanos se mostram valoroso instrumento modelador dos Estados soberanos, impondo limites e parâmetros a serem seguidos, como forma de enaltecer o ser humano como cerne do ordenamento jurídico internacional. Face à importância e relevância dos tratados internacionais, estuda-se o que vem a ser esse fenômeno convencional e a sua integração no direito interno. A preocupação fundamental deste trabalho foi, portanto, evidenciar o reflexo da proteção dos direitos humanos quando da análise das relações entre os ordenamentos jurídicos internacionais e o interno, ressaltando, inclusive, a existência de antinomias entre esses diferentes ordenamentos e a forma de solução, principalmente quanto ao conflito existente entre a Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil de 1988 e o Pacto de San Jose da Costa Rica, especificamente quanto à possibilidade da prisão civil por dívidas, tratado esse devidamente ratificado pelo Brasil e que versa sobre direitos humanos. Através de uma pesquisa bibliográfica acerca do respectivo conflito normativo, obtiveram-se critérios a serem utilizados para solucionar a antinomia entre o direito nacional e o tratado internacional. A Constituição/88, por sua vez, admite a hipótese de prisão civil do depositário infiel, contudo, o Pacto de San Jose da Costa Rica não a contempla. A análise desse conflito tem como destaque a sua solução por meio de critérios específicos aos direitos humanos, uma vez que o Pacto de San Jose da Costa Rica por ser um tratado internacional que versa sobre esses direitos, possuiu hierarquia jurídica diferenciada conferida pela própria Constituição Federal. Os resultados e conclusões apontam para a prevalência da norma mais favorável ao indivíduo, qual seja a do tratado internacional, uma vez que lhe é conferida hierarquia constitucional. Esse posicionamento, contudo, enfrenta divergências na doutrina e jurisprudência.

Comme tout corps de règles naissant et se constituant progressivement en système juridique spécifique, les règles applicables au médicament se nourrissent des régimes juridiques externes préexistants que ceux-ci relèvent du droit public ou du droit privé. Dans les systèmes juridiques reconnus, les emprunts faits, une logique d'appropriation se met en place qui aboutit à la transformation et la spécialisation de la règle empruntée à l'objet ou la situation spécifiquement abordée. Les règles applicables au médicament parviennent-elles effectivement, suivant ce processus classique, à s'approprier les règles et principes des régimes juridiques préexistants. Un système juridique ne pouvant résulter que du sens qui lui est donné. Ainsi, pour qu'il y ait système, les normes constitutives de celui-ci doivent exprimer un objet et un but uniques. La question se pose donc de l'unité des règles applicables au médicament. Ce n'est qu'alors que l'existence d'un système juridique peut être avérée. / Like any set of regulations, which derives its origins from a specific legal system, the regulations for medication is based on an external, pre-existing judicial system of public and private law. Copying the approved judicial system results automatically in recognition, that - depending on the topic - entails a specific change or specification of the borrowed rule.Should the applicable regulations for medication follow the classic process and acquire the principles of the pre-existing judicial system? A judicial system can only follow one principle. Therefore, the constitutive norms of a judicial system must provide a unified objective. The question therefore arises, if the applicable regulations for medication follows this uniformity. These can only be secured by a judicial system.

"The enjoyment of all human rights by all persons is the ultimate horizon of democracy. It is generally admitted that democratic societies are less likely to violate human rights. The good human rights records of these societies can be justified, among others, by the promotion of a strong legal culture, which provides procedural avenues for allocating responsibility for human rights violations. Thus, the protection of human rights follows from the functions of law in society, and the nature of human rights claims. At the national level, human rights are protected by both domestic and international mechanisms. Therefore, the human rights claims should be based on violations of either domestic law or relevant provisions of operational international human rights instruments. However, most of the time this is not the case, especially in Africa. Many African states have ratified several international human rights instruments, but the record of the way the latter are applied in their respective judicial systems remains very poor. This study aims to analyse the case of Burundi, one of these state whose judicial system only rarely applies international human rights instruments in spite of the importance devoted to them by the Constitution. It must be understood that international human rights as a source of law will be referred to, in this study, both as a source of rights and as a source of interpretation of domestic human righs instruments such as the Bill of Rights. ... Chapter one will set out the content of the research, identify the problem and outline the methodology. Chapter two will focus on the status of international law in domestic legal systems. It will highlight the theories that have been used to determine the relationship between international and domestic law in general. Chapter three will analyse on basis of some samples of cases how the Burundian courts interpret and apply international human rights instruments. Chapte four discusses the role played by the Burundian lawyers in the enforcement of these instruments. Chapter five will draw [a] conclusion and recommendations." -- Introduction. / Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2005. / Prepared under the supervision of Professor Grace Patrick Tumwine-Mukubwa at the Faculty of Law, Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda / http://www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm1/dissertations.html / Centre for Human Rights / LLM

A première vue, les obligations de l’Etat déterminent les comportements de ce dernier, et l’on ne perçoit pas en quoi le droit interne pourrait leur porter atteinte. Pourtant, la production de certains actes juridiques, entendus par le droit international comme réalisant immédiatement des situations individuelles, pourra être considérée comme une violation de ces obligations. Avant même leur exécution, un fait internationalement illicite pourra être consacré. Certaines règles juridiques, en revanche, apparaîtront plus abstraites au regard du droit international, et ne pourront donner lieu, de leur simple fait, qu’à un risque de violation des obligations de l’Etat. Il faudra alors envisager une autre catégorie d’obligations qui, cette fois, se porteront sur l’état du droit interne général. L’existence de règles dont l’état n’est pas celui requis par ces obligations pourra alors donner lieu à un fait internationalement illicite. Se pose toutefois, dans un second temps, la question de la responsabilité qui peut naître de tels faits, dont les conséquences préjudiciables semblent bien limitées. Plus le droit interne à l’origine de l’illicéité sera abstrait, plus la responsabilité de l’Etat s’éloignera d’une quelconque dimension réparatoire, pour se tourner vers une garantie de la légalité future. Vient alors la problématique de la mise en oeuvre de cette responsabilité. Les conditions classiques de recevabilité des demandes devant les juridictions internationales peuvent en effet s’opposer à ce que puisse être prise en compte une violation du fait du droit interne in abstracto. Alors que ces obstacles pourront aisément être levés dans le cas des actes juridiques individuels, les règles internes en conflit avec les obligations de l’Etat seront, à des degrés divers, plus difficiles à mettre en cause dans un cadre contentieux. Toutefois, certaines juridictions ou quasi-juridictions internationales s’affranchissent aujourd’hui de ce cadre, incitant ainsi fortement les Etats à adapter leur droit interne, selon les nouvelles exigences du droit international. / At first sight, international obligations define real actions of States. Domestic law seems, from certain points of view, unable to affect them. However, the mere enactment of national legal acts, understood by international law as immediate realizations of individual situations, may be amount to a breach of these international obligations. Without any enforcement, an international wrongful act will be exposed. Nevertheless, some domestic norms will still be very abstract from an international point of view. Their creation and maintenance in force can’t be seen an international failure rather a risk. Thus, our task will be to find some other kind of State’s obligations, that relates specifically to a given state of general domestic law. An international wrongful act will be then constituted by the very existence of a national norm, if its state is not the one required by international law. Still, the question of State responsibility for such actions, which don’t cause any concrete injury, has to be answered. The more abstract domestic law is, the furthest responsibility will be from a restorative dimension. Responsibility will only be aimed at protecting the international rule of law for the future. Finally, this leads us to the question of the implementation of this responsibility, since classic international litigation law can prevent a claim against domestic law as a wrongful act. This challenge is easily overcome as long as an individual legal act is at stake. On the contrary, a claim against the fact of a general norm is, on different levels, far more difficult to present before international courts. Today however, some international tribunals go beyond this frame, urging States to adapt their domestic law, following the new exigencies of international law.

Das Verfahren der internationalen ad hoc Strafgerichtshöfe für das ehemalige Jugoslawien und für Ruanda kann als die erste völkerstrafverfahrensrechtliche Ordnung betrachtet werden. Von den Richtern selbst ausgearbeitet und entwickelt, orientierte sich dieses Verfahren ursprünglich sehr an dem angloamerikanischen Strafprozessmodell. Mangels geeigneter Präzedenzfälle und angesichts der vielen Analogiefaktoren zwischen dem innerstaatlichen Strafverfahrensrecht und dem Völkerstrafverfahrensrecht haben sich die Richter -insbesondere während der ersten Tätigkeitsjahre ihrer Gerichtshöfe- öfter auf innerstaatliche Rechtspraxen bei der Anwendung ihrer Verfahrens- und Beweisordnungen bezogen. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht diese Bezugnahme auf innerstaatliches Recht anhand der Rechtsprechung beider ad hoc Strafgerichtshöfe im Bereich des Beweisrechts. Die Gründe und Formen der Bezugnahme auf innerstaatliches Recht werden zuerst dargestellt und anschließend analysiert. Aus der Untersuchung der Rechtsprechung ergibt sich eine insgesamt unsystematische und pragmatische Nutzung des innerstaatlichen Rechts, welches meistens dazu dient, die für den Einzelfall geeignetste Lösung zu liefern und/ oder die von den Richtern getroffene Entscheidung zu legitimieren. Solch eine Vorgehensweise birgt zweierlei Probleme: Ein Legitimitätsproblem angesichts der Internationalität des Verfahrens der ad hoc Strafgerichtshöfe und ein Problem hinsichtlich der Vorhersehbarkeit der Anwendung ihrer Verfahrens- und Beweisordnungen. Abschließend widmet sich diese Arbeit dementsprechend der Frage nach einer methodischen Herangehensweise, welche zu mehr Legitimität und Vorhersehbarkeit bei der Anwendung der Verfahrensregeln internationaler Strafgerichtshöfe beitragen könnte, und dies abgesehen davon, ob sich die Richter dabei auf externe normative Räume, wie diejenigen innerstaatlicher Rechtsordnungen, beziehen oder nicht. / The procedure of the ad hoc international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda can be regarded as the first set of rules of international criminal procedure. This procedural law, constructed and developed by the judges themselves was primary inspired by the common law approach to criminal proceedings. In the absence of precedents, and given the numerous potential analogies between domestic criminal procedure and international criminal procedure, the judges often referred to domestic legal practices - particularly during the ad hoc tribunals’ first years of activity - when applying rules of procedure and evidence. The present work investigates this reference to domestic law by examining the ad hoc tribunals’ jurisprudence regarding the law of evidence. The reasons for and forms of the reference to domestic law are first presented and then analysed. This study concludes that, on the whole, domestic law is referred to in an unsystematic and pragmatic manner: It is mostly used by the judges in order to provide the most suitable solution for the particular case before them and/ or to legitimate a decision they have already made on the basis of their own procedural rules. Such an approach raises two problems: a legitimacy deficit in regard to the internationality of the ad hoc tribunals’ procedure and a lack of predictability in the application of the rules of procedure and evidence. This study deals therefore finally with the possibility of a methodical approach, which could contribute to more predictability and legitimacy in the application of the procedural rules of international criminal tribunals, regardless of whether or not the judges refer to external normative systems, such as domestic legal orders.

Pour identifier des limites internationales de la liberté de l’État en matière fiscale, il convient d’étudier non seulement sa compétence fiscale — envers qui il peut exercer le pouvoir fiscal — mais aussi son pouvoir fiscal — ce qu’il peut faire dans l’exercice de ce pouvoir. Ces éléments sont éclaircis à travers l’analyse de la pratique étatique et de la jurisprudence internationale. La compétence fiscale de l’État ne repose pas sur une habilitation par l’ordre juridique international, mais doit être appréhendée sous le prisme des deux faces de l’État : personne publique et sujet de droit international. D’une part, les États disposent d’un pouvoir fiscal originaire de leur constitution comme personnes publiques souveraines. D’une autre part, en tant que sujets de droit international, ils peuvent se reconnaître des droits et des obligations subjectifs, et donc aménager l’exercice de leurs pouvoirs fiscaux par la détermination des sphères de leurs compétences par la conclusion d’engagements interétatiques. En dehors de cette hypothèse, les critères de rattachement fiscal sont des représentations d’une relation entre l’État et le sujet ou l’objet de l’impôt selon l’appréciation de l’État normateur, et non pas des règles certaines de compétence internationale.La liberté de l’État de déterminer le contenu de son pouvoir fiscal est encadrée de manière rudimentaire par le droit international. Cet encadrement implique essentiellement l’inopposabilité des normes fiscales d’effet extraterritorial et l’interdiction de réalisation d’opérations matérielles en territoire étranger. Pour autant, parce qu’il est souverain, l’État peut consentir à des limitations de son pouvoir fiscal dans le cadre de la coopération ou l’intégration internationale, sans que le titre de son pouvoir ne soit contesté. / In order to determine the international limits of State freedom in tax matters, one should take into account not only thescope of the power to tax (i.e. the competence to tax), but also its content, in relation to the exercise of the power to tax.Therefore, jurisdiction to tax is a twofold concept: it entails a competence to tax — with regard to whom a State may exerciseits power to tax — and a power to tax — what a State may do while exercising this power. Its analysis is based on Statepractice and international case law.Competence to tax is not based on an empowerment by international law. Its analysis has to be guided by the idea thatStates have two facets: they are public persons and at the same time international law subjects. First, the creation ofStates as sovereign public persons marks the origin of their jurisdiction to tax. Secondly, as international law subjects, Statesmay recognize rights and assume obligations. Thus, they can adjust the exercise of their power to tax by establishing theirscope through double taxation conventions. In all other cases, tax nexus criteria do not constitute certain rules ofjurisdiction, but merely depict the way States conceive their relationship with a tax subject or object.International law restrictions to the exercise of the power to tax are minor. Indeed, these restrictions mainly entail theunenforceability of tax rules with extraterritorial effect and the prohibition of material acts of enforcement on foreignterritory. Therefore, as sovereign subjects, States are free to allow restrictions to their powers through internationalcooperation and integration. Such restrictions do not challenge the foundations of their power to tax.

Établissant une relation entre un État ou l’une de ses émanations, d’une part, et un investisseur d’autre part, le droit des investissements étrangers se meut au-delà de la distinction droit public/droit privé. Compte tenu du fait qu’il se situe à un point de jonction entre le droit international et le droit interne, le droit des investissements pose d’importantes questions relatives à la loi applicable, ainsi qu’aux juridictions compétentes. Conçu comme un ordre juridique spécifique provenant de l’interaction entre les ordres juridiques international et interne, le droit des investissements engendre de multiples répercussions quant à son interférence avec l’ordre juridique interne. Cette interférence, n’étant soumise à aucune hiérarchie de compétence législative ou juridictionnelle, soulève de sérieuses interrogations : quel serait le droit applicable lorsque les droits interne et international ont vocation à s’appliquer dans un même litige ? Dans le même ordre d’idées, quelle serait la juridiction compétente si les institutions juridictionnelles internationales et internes sont toutes les deux compétentes selon leurs propres règles de rattachement pour trancher le litige ? Les réponses à ces interrogations ne sont pas évidentes et continuent de donner lieu à de vifs débats. La question n’ayant pas été tranchée de façon ferme et définitive, la présente étude proposera d’y apporter des éléments de réponse en démontrant la manifeste prééminence du droit international de fond et de l’arbitrage transnational de nature à permettre d’écarter l’application de la loi locale et d’exclure la compétence des juges internes. Cette prééminence fera enfin l’objet d’un examen approprié. / Establishing a relationship between a State or one of its emanations, on the one hand, and an investor, on the other, international investment law moves beyond the distinction between public law and private law. Given the fact that it resides in-between international law and domestic law, international investment law raises important questions about the governing law and jurisdiction. Conceived as a specific legal order arising from the interaction between the international and the national legal orders, international investment law begets controversy with respect to its interference with the national legal order. This interference, which is not submitted to any hierarchy on the legislative or jurisdictional level, raises serious questions: what would be the applicable law when domestic law and international law are both involved in the same dispute? In a similar manner, what would be the competent court if the international and domestic jurisdictional institutions are both competent according to the rules of their own legal order? The answers to these questions are not obvious and continue to give rise to heated debates. As the issue has not been firmly and definitively resolved, the present study aims to provide an answer by demonstrating the pre-eminence of substantive international law and transnational arbitration to the point of clearly excluding the application of the local law and the competence of domestic judges. This pre-eminence will finally be subject to an in-depth examination.

L'incorporation du Statut de Rome de la Cour pénale internationale dans l’ordre juridique d'un État partie représente pour celui-ci un énorme engagement envers la justice, la protection et la garantie des droits fondamentaux de la personne humaine. La situation est particulièrement préoccupante dans le cas de la Colombie où la violation de ces droits fondamentaux a historiquement été notoire au cours du conflit armé interne qui sévit encore dans le pays aujourd’hui. Du fait de la ratification du Statut de Rome par l'État colombien, ce pays a le devoir de privilégier la recherche de la vérité, de la justice, de la réparation intégrale et les garanties de non-répétition pour les victimes du conflit armé. Ce traité international vise à empêcher la mise en place de règles consacrant l'impunité et empêchant de connaître la vérité de faits, comme ce qui a longtemps été le cas dans ce pays et qui a entraîné la prolongation du conflit pendant tant d'années. L'adoption du Statut de Rome par l'État colombien a produit différents effets juridiques dans le droit interne colombien. Certains de ces effets peuvent être observés dans les lois adoptées par le Congrès de la République ainsi que dans les arrêts de la Cour constitutionnelle et de la Cour suprême de justice où s'expriment les obligations internationales de l'État, rattachées au respect du système universel des droits de l'homme. Ce mémoire vise ainsi entre autres à exposer de quelle manière les dispositions sur les amnisties et la Loi Justice et paix rendent inefficace la mise en œuvre législative du Statut de Rome en Colombie. / The incorporation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court into the domestic legal system of a State Party constitutes an enormous commitment to justice and the protection and guarantee of fundamental human rights. This situation is especially interesting in Colombia, where the violation of human rights has been historically well-known during the internal armed conflict in which the country has gone through for several years now. Since its ratification of the Rome Statute, Colombia has a duty to search for truth and justice, as well as providing for integral repair and guarantees of non-repetition for the victims of the armed conflict. The treaty does not allow the creation of rules that allow for impunity and prevent knowledge of the truth which can explain that the conflict has persisted for so many years. The implementation of the Rome Statute by Colombia adjustment has produced different legal effects into its legal system. Some of these effects can be observed in certain laws adopted by the Congress of the Republic and in the Constitutional’s Court and the Supreme Court of Justice’s judgements. These laws and judgments have relied on the international obligations of the country contained in human rights treaties and the Statute of Rome. This master thesis exposes, among other things, how the provisions of laws relating to amnesties and the Law Justice and peace make the Rome Statute inefficient in Colombia.

La question des traités internationaux devant la juridiction constitutionnelle ivoirienne est une illustration du contentieux interne relatif au droit international conventionnel. Dans le cadre de ce contentieux relatif aux rapports entre le droit international et le droit interne, la juridiction constitutionnelle est amenée à se prononcer sur la constitutionnalité des traités internationaux avant leur insertion dans l’ordre juridique ivoirien. Les modalités d’introduction des traités internationaux en droit ivoirien traduisent l’option du pays en faveur de la doctrine moniste avec primauté du droit international. Les traités régulièrement ratifiés sont automatiquement incorporés au droit interne et ont, dès leur publication, une autorité supérieure à celle des lois internes. Cependant, avant leur ratification, la Constitution prévoit une procédure de vérification de leur constitutionnalité. Ce contrôle préventif a pour effet d’empêcher l'entrée dans l'ordre juridique ivoirien de tout traité international contraire à la Constitution, en dehors de l’intervention du pouvoir constituant. Si le traité est déclaré contraire à la Constitution, l’autorisation de le ratifier ne peut intervenir qu’après la révision constitutionnelle. Le mécanisme de contrôle mis en place par la Constitution de 1960 et reconduit par la Constitution de 2000 actuellement en vigueur a connu une évolution notable relativement à ses conditions d’exercice. Celles-ci ont été progressivement et considérablement élargies par les textes dans le but de faciliter et favoriser le déclenchement du contrôle…. Au total, la juridiction constitutionnelle n’a pu se pencher que sur une vingtaine de traités dont elle a, tant bien que mal, apprécié la conformité à la Constitution. Dans la confrontation de la norme internationale avec la Constitution, l’attitude du juge constitutionnel, emprunte parfois d’hésitations, repose largement sur une interprétation assez libérale de l’exigence de non-contrariété qui aboutit à faciliter la participation de l’État au droit international conventionnel en général et au droit communautaire africain en particulier. En effet, jusqu’ici, l’exercice du contrôle de la constitutionnalité des traités a révélé que, loin de constituer un « frein au développement du droit international », comme aurait pu laisser présager le mécanisme du contrôle, de façon générale, celui-ci s’avère plutôt favorable à l’influence du droit international. Seul le traité de Rome portant Statut de la Cour pénale internationale a été déclaré contraire à la Constitution par le Conseil constitutionnel dans sa décision du 17 décembre 2003. La révision constitutionnelle attendue en vue de la ratification du Traité de Rome permettra d’apprécier l’exécution des décisions de contrariété rendues par l’instance constitutionnelle. / The issue of international treaties before the Ivorian constitutional court is an illustration of the internal dispute relating to international treaty law. In the framework of this dispute concerning the relationship between international law and national law, the constitutional court is asked to decide on the conformity of international treaties before their integration in the Ivorian legal order. The conditions of integration of international treaties in the Ivorian domestic law reflect the country’s option in favor of the monist doctrine with primacy of international law. Treaties duly ratified are automatically incorporated into the national law and shall, upon publication, prevail over Acts of Parliament. However, before their ratification, the Constitution provides a procedure for the review of their constitutionality. The effect of this preventive review is to avoid the entry of unconstitutional international treaties into the Ivorian legal order without the decision and intervention of the constituent power. If the treaty is held not to be in conformity with the Constitution, authorization to ratify it may be given only after amending the Constitution. The mechanism of constitutional review established by the Constitution of 1960 and extended by the Constitution of 2000 (currently in force) undergone significant evolution regarding its conditions of implementation. These conditions were considerably widened in order to facilitate the release of control… In total, the constitutional court was able to look into only twenty or so treaties for which, somehow, the judge reviewed compliance with the Constitution. In the confrontation of treaties with Constitution, the attitude of the constitutional court is sometimes hesitant. Its interpretation of the requirement of non-contradiction between the treaty and the Constitution generally leads to facilitate the participation of the State to International law in general and African community law in particular. Indeed, so far, the practice of the constitutional review by the judge revealed that, the review, far from being an "obstacle to the development of international law", as could foreshadow its mechanism, is rather favorable to its development. Only the Treaty laying down the Statute of the International Criminal Court was declared not to be in conformity with the Constitution by the constitutional court in its decision of 17 December 2003. The amendment of the Constitution that is expected for the ratification of this treaty will be an opportunity to appreciate the enforcement of non-conformity decisions.

Jurisprudence / LL. D.