Chapter L’internationalisation du droit et le début du constitutionnalisme transnational

Overview & Synopsis

This chapter analyzes how the 20th century marked the emergence and consecration of the doctrine of human rights not only in the legal field, but also in several other areas of thought. Although, in its etymological origin, it may have seemed a redundant or pleonastic expression, since rights are essentially human, stemming from the natural condition of human beings to attribute normative meaning to their behavior, the expression "human rights" has entered the current lexicon of the international community and has produced a series of effects that form the material basis underpinning transnational constitutionalism in the 21st century.