Epistemic Authority and the Right to Science in AO-32/25 - Legal Foundations for the Integration of Traditional Knowledge in the Inter-American System

Epistemic Authority and the Right to Science in AO-32/25 - Legal Foundations for the Integration of Traditional Knowledge in the Inter-American System do Amaral Junior, Alberto Author aut Soares Bicalho, Isabela Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-09-05 eng Traditionally, the right to science as occupied a marginal place within the contentious and advisory architecture of the Inter-American system. However, in its Advisory Opinion–AO-32/25, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights changes this framework by shifting the right to science from a peripheral tool of knowledge dissemination to a central axis of disputes over epistemic authority in public policy formation. This repositioning is not merely about expanding the scope of an undervalued right but about redefining its legal status based on the structural transformations imposed by the climate crisis on the normative production forms and institutional recognition of knowledge. CC BY-SA 4.0 do Amaral Junior, Alberto Climate Crisis climate litigation indigenous peoples indigenous rights Right to Science 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/epistemic-authority-and-the-right-to-science-in-ao-32-25/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/0196ece331ceb616 250905 10.59704/0196ece331ceb616 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)