El  estado de derecho, la comunidad de derecho y el sistema judicial de la Comunidad Andina

Yolanda Mendoza Neyra

doi:10.38180/rpdi.v75i179.871

Authors

Yolanda Mendoza Neyra University of Lima

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.38180/rpdi.v75i179.871

Keywords:

andean community law, community law, andean community, andean court of justice, community based on the rule of law, rule of law, democracy, human rights, andean integration, integration processes

Abstract

At a time of various national crises and new global challenges that put the Andean Community’s security and integrity at risk, its member countries seek, above all, to protect themselves with their weak democracies, precarious institutional systems and contradictory national legal systems. These state actions, which largely reflect the rule of law´s deficiency in the member countries, causes infringement of Andean community law, reiterate lack of interest in consolidating Andean integration, violate human rights, and, above all, disregard our supranational organization’s community of law based on the rule of law. To reverse this situation, in this article, we propose that the judicial system of the Andean Community be in charge of preserving the Member Countries’s rule of law and strengthening the Andean Community’s community of law based on the rule of law, through new judicial mechanisms. This will facilitate the development more comprehensive and specific jurisprudence on the community of law based on the rule of law, as well as its relationship with the Andean Community’s principles, especially with the rule of law, democracy, and human rights.

Author Biography

Yolanda Mendoza Neyra, University of Lima

Abogada por la Universidad de Lima con segunda especialidad en Derecho Internacional Público por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Mediante el presente artículo, la autora formaliza su incorporación como Miembro, conforme a lo dispuesto por el Consejo Directivo de la Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Internacional, mediante Acta del 13 de diciembre de 2018.

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