Human rights and states of exception

Authors

  • Lautaro Ríos Álvarez Universidad de Valparaiso

Abstract

This paper examines the states of constitutional exception in the Chilean legal system and in comparative law, and its impact on fundamental rights, with special mention to the means of judicial defense of human rights in such states, detecting a disturbing absence of the principle liability for personal injury.

Keywords:

Human rights, States of exception, Crisis, Defense of rights