Diversité culturelle et exercice des justices indigènes: les limites du droit comme instrument de la diversité culturelle en Amérique Latine?
Cultural diversity and native justice exercises: the right limits like an instrument of cultural diversity en Latin Americ

Summary/Abstract: This contribution proposes to examine the problems posed by the insertion in the international instruments – like the Convention n° 169 WLO and the jurisprudence of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights – and in national ones (Columbia, Ecuador and Bolivia) of the dispositions guaranteeing the recognition of indigenous judicial systems and norms. The emphasis wil be mainly placed on the problems of the hierarchisation of the conflict of norms, as well as on the identification of a cultural identity in terms of law. These issues will be examined through the selection of a series of cases brought before the jurisdictional or quasi‐jurisdictional organs. As a conclusion, the contribution will propose a reflection on the role the law could play in redefining and regulating the pluralist societies.

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