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This paper provides a critical analysis of the premises and arguments put forward by the Ius Constitutionale Commune en America Latina project to ground the image of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights as an agent of democratic transformation. It highlights three critical aspects: 1. the profile of the Court is constructed by legal scholars relying on self-validation and self-referentiality, 2. that image validates the idea that lawyers and the judiciary are agents of transformation ruling over local spaces from above, thereby discarding people as the central subjects of change and democratization, and 3. the concept of representative democracy becomes a device that secures the self-validating dynamics of the image of the Court as democracy builder. ; Este articulo analiza críticamente las premisas y argumentos del proyecto Ius Constitutionale Commune en América Latina que perfilan a la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos como un agente de transformación democrática. El articulo plantea tres críticas en concreto: la imagen de la Corte es una construcción llevada a cabo por los abogados y jueces que adolece de problemas de autorreferencialidad y autovalidación; 2. En la medida que dicha construcción valida la idea de que los abogados y jueces son agentes de transformación, también descarta perspectivas que sitúan a los individuos como los sujetos que lideran la democratización de sus ámbitos locales; 3. el concepto de democracia representativa que fundamenta la imagen de la Corte como agente de transformación democrática es una herramienta de auto-validación de la labor de esta última.

This paper provides a critical analysis of the premises and arguments put forward by the Ius Constitutionale Commune en America Latina project to ground the image of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights as an agent of democratic transformation. It highlights three critical aspects: 1. the profile of the Court is constructed by legal scholars relying on self-validation and selfreferentiality, 2. that image validates the idea that lawyers and the judiciary are agents of transformation ruling over local spaces from above, thereby discarding people as the central subjects of change and democratization, and 3. the concept of representative democracy becomes a device that secures the self-validating dynamics of the image of the Court as democracy builder.