The tenth anniversary of the 45th amendment and the hierarchical position of human rights treaties

Authors

  • Caíque Tomaz Leite da Silva Universidade de Coimbra-PT; Faculdades Integradas Antônio Eufrásio de Toledo
  • Carlos Eduardo Sindona de Oliveira Centro Universitário Antônio Eufrásio de Toledo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1980-511X.2016v11n1p137

Keywords:

Constitutional Law. International Human Rights Law. Legislative Process. Hierarchy. Forty-fifth Brazilian Constitutional Amendment

Abstract

On December 8th, 2004, Brazilian’s House of Representatives and Senate promulgated the Forty-fifth Brazilian Constitutional Amendment that brought changes on the Judiciary. This essay proposes a rereading of that Amendment in its 10th anniversary, reopening and making deeper the debate about the constitutional hierarchy of the human rights treaties in Brazilian law, through analysis of the paragraphs of the 5th article of the Constitution and of the original intentions of reformers constituents on introducing them to it.

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Author Biographies

Caíque Tomaz Leite da Silva, Universidade de Coimbra-PT; Faculdades Integradas Antônio Eufrásio de Toledo

Doctor Student in Public Law (dissertation stage) and Post-Graduate in Human Rights from the University of Coimbra (POR). Specialist in Civil Law and Civil Procedural Law Toledo-PP. Examining Committee of the American University (USA). Fellow of the International Humanitarian Law Course (Ius Gentiun Coninbrigae, Human Rights Institute of the University of Coimbra). Visiting Professor of the course Postgraduate Diploma in Human Rights at the University of Coimbra. Member of the working group of Portuguese-Brazilian version of the book "Understanding Human Rights" at the University of Coimbra, Coimbra Editora. Professor of Integrated Schools Eufrásio Antonio Toledo (BRA). Professor of Higher School of Law (ESA). Lawyer.

Carlos Eduardo Sindona de Oliveira, Centro Universitário Antônio Eufrásio de Toledo

Fellow researcher of the research group "State, Law and Society," the Toledo University Center, coordinated by Professor Caíque Tomaz Leite da Silva.

Published

2016-04-30

How to Cite

Silva, C. T. L. da, & Oliveira, C. E. S. de. (2016). The tenth anniversary of the 45th amendment and the hierarchical position of human rights treaties. Revista Do Direito Público, 11(1), 137–162. https://doi.org/10.5433/1980-511X.2016v11n1p137

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