–Emiliano Vitaliani, Fox Fellow, University of São Paulo; LL.M., Yale Law School
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (ICtHR) is currently considering the impeachment of Argentine Supreme Court Justice Eduardo Moliné O’Connor in 2003. The case is unlikely to surprise observers of the Court’s jurisprudence. Over the last decades, the ICtHR has developed a robust doctrine on judicial independence and impeachment that strongly favors Moliné O’Connor’s position. Yet the case also exposes deeper tensions within the Court’s understanding of judicial independence, particularly regarding apex courts facing broader crises of institutional legitimacy.
Eduardo Moliné O’Connor was appointed as
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