Administrative Law and Human Rights

Abstract

Starting at the end of the XX century and continuing through the first decades of the XXI, there has been an explosion of human rights practically all over the world. More frequently than ever, we see Constitutional Courts invoking violation of human rights in their rulings. However, prior to that explosion, and even though administrative law is a relatively young branch of the laws, it appears as a discipline whose object is to halt the acts of constituted authority, doing so with grounds on the protection of subjective rights. Once administrative law builds a system of how the rights of citizens must be fulfilled, its natural vocation is undoubtedly the realization of human rights.