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La reserva de ley y la seguridad jurídica como mecanismos para tutelar los derechos de la naturaleza: un estudio de las sentencias n.° 32-17-IN/21 y n.° 22-18-IN/21 de la Corte Constitucional del Ecuador (Tema Central)

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doi:10.32719/29536782.2022.2.1

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Koehn, Lena

Reported year

2022

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es · spa

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article

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2026-11-09T19:04:47.840242+00:00

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2026-11-10T16:58:51.431709+00:00

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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München (Múnich, Alemania)

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DE

Documentary abstract — original language

The recognition of rights of nature is one of the most innovative aspects of the current Constitution of Ecuador and has attracted the attention of lawyers all over the world. This especially since 2019, when the Constitutional Court of Ecuador began to systematically concretize the abstract constitutional terms and examine the relation between rights of nature and other constitutional rights and guarantees. This paper aims to contribute to the latter by analyzing the constitutional guarantee of compulsory legislative (instead of e.g. administrative) regulation (reserva de ley) and the right to legal certainty and its role in defending rights of nature. After having introduced both constitutional concepts, the article proceeds to examine the Constitutional Court judgements n.° 32-17-IN/21 y n.° 22-18-IN/21 (Mangrove Case) focusing on the guarantee of compulsory legislative regulation (reserva de ley) and legal certainty as means to protect rights of nature. It is shown, that through the discussed constitutional concepts the Constitutional Court of Ecuador has limited the administrative regulation of rights of nature appealing to the responsibility of the legislator in matters of fundamental constitutional relevance, among them, rights of nature. The paper concludes that Constitutional Court of Ecuador thereby not only defends rights of nature but also strengthens participative democracy. Los derechos de la naturaleza son uno de los aspectos más innovadores de la Constitución de Ecuador, y han atraído la atenciówn de juristas tanto ecuatorianos como internacionales. Con el desarrollo de los derechos de la naturaleza por parte —sobre todo— de la Corte Constitucional a partir de 2019, se ha empezado a concretar el contenido de dichos derechos abstractos y a discutir la relación entre los derechos de la naturaleza y otros derechos y garantías. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo hacer un aporte a este último punto, desarrollando los límites que imponen la garantía de la reserva de ley y el derecho a la seguridad jurídica en actos privados y estatales, en el contexto de los derechos de la naturaleza. Para ello, primero se analizarán la reserva de ley y el derecho a la seguridad jurídica en el contexto jurídico ecuatoriano. Luego, se examinarán dichos conceptos en relación con los derechos de la naturaleza a través de un análisis de las sentencias constitucionales n.° 32-17-IN/21 y n.° 22-18-IN/21 (caso Manglares). Como se podrá evidenciar, la Corte Constitucional ha fortalecido sustancialmente el papel del legislador en proyectos con incidencia en los derechos de la naturaleza: un aporte esencial para tutelar tales derechos y al mismo tiempo reforzar la democracia participativa.

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10644/9262

DOI

10.32719/29536782.2022.2.1

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2953-6782

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oai:repositorio.uasb.edu.ec:10644/9262

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W6992260166

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• DOI · https://doi.org/10.32719/29536782.2022.2.1
• Document · http://hdl.handle.net/10644/9262
• Handle · https://hdl.handle.net/10644/9262
• Document · https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/andares/article/view/4035
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