Nature, scope and challanges of the Right to Due Process

The experience of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights

Abstract

This  paper  seeks  to  approach  some  of  the  elements  that  shape  the  right  to  due process, it also tries to establish the challanges that arised while building up its content and scope over the last decades and, lastly, to review some of the current challanges in the region, in terms of due process. The topics related to the evolution of the standards and challanges are closely tied to the growth of the Interamerican Court  of  Human  Rights'  jurisprudence  (Interamerican  Court,  IACHR  the  Court,  hereafter). These are clearly shown in a project, consisting of the systematization and sequence of the Court's jurisprudence. This work, has been set to disposal of the entire latinamerican legal community, and fundamentally to justice agents of the region. On the Interamerican Court's homepage there is a subsection with papers, under  the  option:  “Jurisprudence  Booklet  of  the  Interamerican  Court  of  Human  Rights”, with the systematized jurisprudence from 1988 to 2017. Consequently, the observations will be focused on matters that rise up in forms of conclusions made in the field of Due Process.