Binding Nature of UN Treaty Body Decisions Rejected by Brazil’s Electoral Court
[Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg is Professor of International Law at Universidad del Pacífico, in Peru.] I want to draw readers’ attention to a recent decision of the Brazilian Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE), Brazil’s top electoral court, regarding the mandatory nature of UN treaty body decisions. The case centers on former President Luis Inazio da Silva’s (better known as “Lula”) disqualification from the...