The structural judgments of the Peruvian Constitutional Court in the field of socioeconomic rights: health and education

Abstract

In recent decades there has been a phenomenon that reaches the constitutional jurisdiction of countries with large social inequalities. Part of this phenomenon is the use of a jurisprudentially created figure called a structural judgment. Since Brown vs. Board of Education in the United States due to issues of racial segregation; Grootboom vs. Republic of South Africa, for the right to decent housing and that of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties vs. Indian Union and others, for the right to basic food, until reaching the judgment T-025 of the Constitutional Court of Colombia on forced displacement of persons. In Peru, it has been the Constitutional Court that has issued more than a dozen occasions such judgments, which have fallen mainly on socio-economic rights. Despite this, its development in our environment is still incipient, so it is pertinent to analyze the path that is going.