Diálogo entre cortes: a recepção da jurisprudência da corte interamericana de direitos humanos no Brasil: uma análise das decisões dos Tribunais Regionais Federais e do Superior Tribunal de Justiça

Abstract

The present work analyzes the judicial dialogue between the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), the Brazilian Federal Regional Courts and The Superior Court of Justice. It is understood that Brazil is inserted in a context of legal pluralism, since it is subjected to more than one human rights protection order. To reconcile these orders is necessary to seek a non-hierarchical solution, being the judicial dialogue one of them. The work analyzes the types of dialogue, the ways in which the courts can relate to and the position of national judges in relation to the regional law on human rights. We, then, searched the websites of the Brazilian Courts objects of this study to identify decisions that used the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court as a reasoning for deciding the cases. From these results it was concluded that the judicial dialogue between these courts is still in it’s early point, depending in many times on the personal initiative of certain magistrates, although we have found some significant results qualitatively, that shows that the dialogue is possible and would be positive as in protecting human rights.