Abstract:
The article starts from the most frequent classifications on the hierarchy of the international human rights treaties in the juridical order, therefor to suggest the recognition of the relative and supraconstitutional hierarchical status of the international conventions of human rights. The proposal departs from the sanctifying positions of constitutional sovereignty as the only viable horizon in the contemporary juridical plane. It thus replaces the discourse of the normative force of the Constitution and demonstrates the emergence of a universalist legal paradigm in which the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988 itself was based on the relativization of its norms in favor of international legal instruments. From a dogmatic perspective, and form the principle pro persona of International Human Rights Law, the research seeks above all to contribute to the re-discussion of the current position of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court on the supralegal hierarchy of the treaties, as well as to initiate a dialogue with the heterarchical normative theories in search of the formulation of practical criteria for conflict resolution by the judges.
Keywords:
supraconstitutionality; conventionality control; international human rights treaty; hierarchy of international treaties; sovereignty