Control constitucional de los actos administrativos en el Ecuador: un análisis estructural de la jurisprudencia de la Corte Constitucional4)

Abstract

Abstract: This study investigates the insufficient doctrinal development and limited jurisprudential activity on the constitutional control of administrative acts in Ecuador, even when such acts directly affect fundamental human rights. For a long time, administrative acts were understood to possess only formal legality; however, experience shows that, in the absence of rigorous constitutional scrutiny, they can serve as a mechanism for the violation of rights. Consequently, the general objective of the research was to examine how the Constitutional Court, through its jurisprudence between 2020 and 2025, has built a renewed model of control over administrative acts, reaffirming the supremacy of the constitutional norm and the immediate effectiveness of rights. A qualitative methodology with a hermeneutic and analytical approach was used, which produced a structural and critical study of a set of ten paradigmatic rulings, to which was added a review of the norm and the doctrine.