THE REASONED VOTES OF JUDGE ANTONIO AUGUSTO CANÇADO TRINDADE: A STUDY OF THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE CIDH IN PERUVIAN CASES - DOI: 10.12818/P.0304-2340.2022v81p233

Abstract

The investigation was born as a tribute to the jurist Antonio Augusto Cançado Trindade, a symbol of the fight for human rights. A toplevel academic, former president of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights and judge of the International Court of Justice. He leaves an impressive legacy, a tireless humanist, his work shook the classrooms forming generations, and one of his undeniable characteristics that made him admired was to put the victims of human rights violations at the center of all the machinery for the protection and promotion of human rights. humans. I met him personally in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, he shone for his intelligence, easygoing treatment, and very knowledgeable of all the jurisprudence, with such solvency he expressed and developed each progress of the cases, and the contribution of these to the legal culture of the human rights. That is why this article seeks to recognize his contribution in the Cases against Peru, through his reasoned opinions, when reviewing them with respect to the State of Peru, highlighting his position in the emblematic La Cantuta case, etc. In this sense, the 11 judgments issued by the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights between 1998 and 2006 have been verified, and the jurisprudence developed by Judge Cançado Trindade has been observed.