Judicial Activism and the Limits of Law through the Rulings of the Interamerican Court on Human Rights

La autora defiende la utilidad del postpositivismo para analizar dos problemas que plantea la aplicación de la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos. El primero, es el de los efectos jurídicos de las leyes internas que violan la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos, las mismas que pueden ser divididas entre leyes extremadamente injustas y leyes injustas. El segundo es el de la competencia de la Corte IDH para restaurar la vigencia de un decreto declarado inconstitucional por la Corte Suprema de Costa Rica.The author defends the relevance of postpositivism to analize two problems arisen from the application of the American Convention on Human Rights. The first one is the legal effects of domestic laws that violate the American Convention on Human Rights, which can be categorized as either extremely unfair laws or unfair laws. The second problem concerns the competence of the Interamerican Court on Human Rights to reestablish the validity of a decree that was declared unconstitutional by the Costa Rican Supreme Court