Treaties in the Philippine Constitutional System

Authors

Diane A. Desierto, University of Notre DameFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

Publication Information

16 Vienna J. on Int'l Const. L. 27 (2022).

Abstract

From the Article Abstract

International law has always had a dual significance to the Philippine constitutional system. On the one hand, the frequent articulation of international law principles within modern Philippine constitutional norms, statutes, and administrative rules demonstrate an outward-looking normative ethos – one I have described in other scholarship to be consistent with the 1987 Philippine Constitution’s ‘universalist history’. On the other hand, the considerable volume of Philippine jurisprudence applying international law norms to date overwhelmingly illustrate how Philippine litigants have strategically deployed international law (most especially international human rights law) over the years, as an acceptable external legal basis to hold Philippine government leaders to account under the vastly expanded judicial review doctrine in the 1987 Philippine Constitution.

Comments

Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law / ICL Journal, Vol. 16, Issue 1 (March 2022), pp. 27-134.

Recommended Citation

Diane A. Desierto, Treaties in the Philippine Constitutional System, 16 Vienna J. on Int'l Const. L. 27 (2022)..
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