Dialogue between courts in relation to vulnerable groups

Abstract

In this article we will try to determine the existence of a dialogue between courts of the deliberative type, whose objective is the coordination of actions to achieve a better course of action achieving an effective action and with less negative effects and the relationship of this with the protection of vulnerable groups foreseen in the Ecuadorian constitution, for this analysis is taken as reference the ex-traordinary protection actions resolved by the Constitutional Court of Ecuador in the period 2008-2018, specifically five processes have been considered in which reference and appointment of the criteria of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights issued in rulings or advisory opinions where it was resolved in favor of a gender case or for the benefit of persons belonging to priority attention groups. This will identify, in each case, the precedent or jurisprudential rule that the Ecuadorian constitutional judges dictated in this context and that will constitute jurisprudential precedents for its application in the future.

KEYWORDS: constitutional law, access to justice, right to work, judicial decision, right of vulnerable groups

JEL CODE: J13, J15