Abstract
The present article analyzes how the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has been forging –and expanding– the conventionality control in order to raise certain issues that are still problematic. These are: (i) whether the extension of conventionality control to national courts is a new prerogative or pre-existing obligation, (ii) whether the judgments of the Inter-American Court have erga omnes or inter partes effects, (iii) the complexity and poor accessibility of Inter-American jurisprudence for national courts, and (iv) the invisibility of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the development and application of conventionality control.
Keywords:
conventionality control; Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; primacy of international law