Abstract

DELGADO PARRA, Concepción. Glimpses of the “critical cosmopolitanism” at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Andamios [online]. 2020, vol.17, n.42, pp.89-120.  Epub Aug 28, 2020. ISSN 2594-1917.  https://doi.org/10.29092/uacm.v17i42.736.

The text presented below proposes an approach to Seyla Benhabib’s “Critical Cosmopolitanism” to discuss an alternative to the challenge of “democratic sovereignty versus human rights law,” which contributes to the elaboration of the ethical discourse on which the development and content of the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is based. To this end, three aspects are discussed: 1. An approach to the normative order of transnational justice and democracy proposed by Rainer Forst to identify the place of justice and its justification as two principles underpinning critical cosmopolitanism. 2. The characteristics of critical cosmopolitanism and the role of “democratic iterations”. and 3. Critical Cosmopolitanism and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Keywords : Critical cosmopolitanism; justification; justice; democratic iterations; Inter-American Court of Human Rights.