The Constitutional Court of Costa Rica

Abstract

The criate, in 1989, of Costarrican Constitutional Court, represented in that central american country a really institutional revolution, nearing it to the constitutional normativity. The court is formed by seven especializated judges, with competence to know process about protection of human rights ("amparo" and "habeas corpus"); has a incumbence to control the constitutionality of law, using the process of judicial and legislative consult and the direct action of constitutionality. Its function is directed by the principles of celerity, not expensive costs, consideration of constitutional defense like an public interested point, amplity of constitutional parameter including international norms ratificated by legislative, costumes and principles consagraded by constitution.