The incorporation of international treaties into the Chilean legal order

Authors

  • Teodoro Ribera Neumann Abogado, Profesor de la Universidad Autónoma de Chile y de la Universidad de Chile.

Abstract

Starting in the 1990s, the Constitutional Court saw the need to resolve complex matters related, among others, to the existing link between international treaties and the domestic legal order, supremacy, and criteria of validity and applicability. between each other, etc. Undoubtedly, the disputes raised before said magistracy fertilized the environment so that the constitutional reform project presented by Senators Andrés Chadwick and Sergio Romero would be receptive at the parliamentary level, and so that the idea of modifying the system of incorporation of treaties International Law to Internal Law was finally accepted by the Executive, replacing a system whose origins date back to the Constitution of 1828.

Keywords:

International treaties, Chilean legal order, Constitutional Court