헌법재판과 국제법의 존중

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Decisions of Constitutional Court showed ‘respect of international law’ by analyzing the preamble and Article 6 (1) of the Constitution of Korea. However, the meaning and status of the ‘treaty and generally accepted rules of international law’ has not defined and clarified in the constitution itself. This article, accordingly, will clarify the meaning of the Article 6(1) of Korean Constitution by examining the decisions of the Constitutional Court from the perspective of international law.
The Article 6(1) of Korean Constitution provides that ‘treaty and generally accepted rules of international law have same effect as domestic law’. This provision implies two aspects which should be clarified. Firstly, what’s the meaning of the term ‘treaty and generally accepted international law rules’, secondly, what’s the meaning of the ‘same effect as domestic law’. The Constitutional court defined the treaty as an international agreement concluded between States in written form, and it admit the customary international law as a generally accepted rules of international law. With regard to the effect of the treaty and generally accepted rules of international law, these have same effect as the statutes. This means that the treaty and generally accepted rues of international law do not prevail the provisions of constitution in Korea.
However, treaties as a source of international law can only be concluded in the crossroads of international agreement and domestic procedures. Therefore, the issues regarding the effect of the treaties in domestic court should be decided with the consideration of international law. Where the treaties became the objects or criteria of interpretation for the cases, the constitutional court should consider the effect of treaty carefully. The Constitutional court has emphasized that the purport of the treaties shall be used to decide the effect of the relevant treaty. In other words, the assumption of concurrence has been admitted in the Constitutional court in Korea.

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