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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Supreme Court of Argentina (Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación)

Argentina [ar]

José Sebastián Elias

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
May 2016

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Constitutional courts/supreme courts — Judiciary

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1. The Supreme Court of Argentina (Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación) is the highest court on all federal and constitutional matters and it sits at the apex of the Argentine Judiciary. It was established by the Constitution of 1853 (Constitution of the Argentine Nation: 1 May 1853 (Arg)), following the model of the Supreme Court of the United States (García-Mansilla and Ramírez Calvo (2008) 113–114). The Supreme Court has never been formally abolished or replaced by a different judicial body, despite several amendments to the Constitution, including two...
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