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<journal-id>2528-7834</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Iuris Dictio]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Iuris Dictio]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2528-7834</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2528-78342018000100081</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La Corte Constitucional, el derecho a la igualdad y las categorías sospechosas]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The Constitutional Court: law, equality and suspicious categories]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Ortiz Custodio]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[José David]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,University of Pennsylvania  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>USA</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2018</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>21</numero>
<fpage>81</fpage>
<lpage>95</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.senescyt.gob.ec/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2528-78342018000100081&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.senescyt.gob.ec/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2528-78342018000100081&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.senescyt.gob.ec/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2528-78342018000100081&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen El presente artículo contiene un comentario a la jurisprudencia desarrollada por la Corte Constitucional del Ecuador sobre el derecho a la igualdad. En vista de que la Corte Constitucional se refiere a los estándares desarrollados por la jurisprudencia de la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos para analizar si un trato diferenciado es discriminatorio o no, analizaré brevemente el tratamiento del derecho a la igualdad en la jurisprudencia estadounidense y los factores necesarios para considerar a un criterio de diferenciación como una &#8220;categoría sospechosa&#8221;. Finalmente, el artículo demostrará que la jurisprudencia desarrollada por la Corte Constitucional sobre &#8220;categorías sospechosas&#8221; y el &#8220;sistema de escrutinios&#8221; debe ser rectificada, toda vez que ocasionará problemas a los jueces que deban aplicarla en la resolución de casos concretos.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Summary This article provides an account of the precedents issued by the Constitutional Court of Ecuador regarding the right to equal protection of the laws. Since the Constitutional Court has referred to standards of review developed by the Supreme Court of the United States to determine whether differentiations in law comply with the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution, I will provide a brief overview of the equal protection case law and analyze the relevant criteria to consider a class as suspect. Finally, this article will demonstrate that the Constitutional Court precedents concerning suspect categories and levels of scrutiny must be corrected, since its application in concrete cases will be problematic for lower level courts.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Derecho a la igualdad / Discriminación / Categorías Sospechosas / Niveles de Escrutinio / Anti-subordinación / Anti-clasificación]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Equal Protection of the Laws / Discrimination / Suspect Categories / Levels of Scrutiny / Antisubordination / Anticlassification]]></kwd>
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