The hierarchy of international treaties in each state’s domestic system has to be deduced from its case law, constitution or other indicators. Some constitutions accord international treaties the same constitutional power as ordinary laws, and others give international treaties an infra-constitutional but supra-national status; more progressive constitutions, meanwhile, distinguish HRT from other international treaties, and give the former primacy by elevating them over ordinary law and giving them a constitutional status. Very few constitutions however make conventional international law superior to the constitution. Continue reading International Law within the Palestinian Legal System: A Call to Grant Human Rights Treaties a Special Constitutional Status (2020)