Direitos materialmente fundamentais, tratados internacionais de direitos humanos e controle jurisdicional de convencionalidade das leis no Brasil

Abstract

treaties. It also studied topics surrounding this theme such as: the range and meaning of article 5th, § 2, of Brazil s Federal Constitution, that opens the national law system to the international law system; the material concept of fundamental rights in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution; the parameters used in order to establish a definition of material fundamental rights; the relationship between fundamental principles, the human dignity principle and the fundamental rights; the human dignity, its historical outlining and its recent concept; the core elements, functions and types of efficiency regarding the human dignity; definitions, subjects and formal components of international treaties, the relation involving International Right and National Right (Dualism, Monism, alternate theories); foreign constitutional provisions about International Right and National Right. Besides all that, there have been examined the juridical value of the human rights treaties for the doctrine and for the Brazilian Supreme Court; the General Theory of Judicial Conventionality Control in Brazilian Law; the Double Vertical Material Compatibility Control; the diffuse and concentrated species of control and its affinity with the Theory of Source Dialogues and the Pro Homine principle