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The denaturalizing impropriety of the action for protection in Ecuador

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No. 43 (2025): Segundo semestre
https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-4735.2025.80693
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Abstract

Ecuadorian constitutional jurisprudence has identified the "acción de protección" as the principal judicial guarantee for safeguarding the right to an effective remedy, as recognized in Article 25 of the American Convention on Human Rights. Since 2019, however, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador has shown a growing concern with regulating this mechanism, seeking to prevent its misuse and to avoid the risk of its distortion. This article offers a systemic analysis of the Court’s recent case law, examining the main scenarios in which the scope and limits of the acción de protección have been defined. It further contrasts these domestic developments with Inter-American standards on judicial protection and, from a critical perspective, advances possible normative and institutional reforms to address the tensions identified.

Keywords:

acción de protección , Right to an Effective Remedy , Erosion of Judicial Guarantees , Single Procedural Mechanism , Access to Justice

Author Biographies

Kevin Pincay Arteaga , Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil

Estudiante y miembro del equipo de arbitraje de la Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil

Galo Reinoso Sánchez, Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil

Estudiante de la Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil. Miembro del equipo de arbitraje de la Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil

Josué Sellán Fajardo, Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil

Estudiante de la Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil. Miembro del equipo de arbitraje de la Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil.

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Bajaña Tovar, F., Pincay Arteaga , K. ., Reinoso Sánchez, G. ., & Sellán Fajardo, J. . . (2025). The denaturalizing impropriety of the action for protection in Ecuador: Systematization of jurisprudential assumptions and emerging doctrinal strategies for its neutralization. Revista De Estudios De La Justicia, (43). https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-4735.2025.80693
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