Constitutional Change and Transformation in Latin America

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5099-4627-3
Verlag: BLOOMSBURY 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Over the past 30 years, Latin America has lived through an intense period of constitutional change. Some reforms have been limited in their design and impact, while others have been far-reaching transformations to basic structural features and fundamental rights. Scholars interested in the law and politics of constitutional change in Latin America are turning increasingly to comparative methodologies to expose the nature and scope of these changes, to uncover the motivations of political actors, to theorise how better to execute the procedures of constitutional reform, and to assess whether there should be any limitations on the power of constitutional amendment. In this collection, leading and emerging voices in Latin American constitutionalism explore the complexity of the vast topography of constitutional developments, experiments and perspectives in the region. This volume offers a deep understanding of modern constitutional change in Latin America and evaluates its implications for constitutionalism, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Albert, Richard

Bernal, Carlos

Benvindo, Juliano Zaiden

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Mittel-/Südamerika
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Verfassungsgeschichte, Verfassungsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: The Life and Death of Constitutions in Latin America: Constitutional Amendments, the Role of Courts and Democracy

Luís Roberto Barroso

Introduction: Facts and Fictions in Latin American Constitutionalism

Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, Carlos Bernal and Richard Albert

PART I
POPULAR AND POPULIST CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY
1. Constitution-Making (without Constituent) Power: On the Conceptual Limits of the Power to Replace or Revise the Constitution

Carlos Bernal
2. Continuity and Change in Latin America: The Ever-Present Authoritarianism and the Democratic Capacities of the New Latin American Constitutions

Fernando José Gonçalves Acunha
3. Constitutional Moments and Constitutional Th resholds in Brazil: Mass Protests and the 'Performative Meaning' of Constitutionalism

Juliano Zaiden Benvindo
4. Constitutional Unamendability in Latin America Gone Wrong?

Yaniv Roznai

PART II
JUDICIAL REVIEW OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
5. The Colombian Constitutional Court's Doctrine on the Substitution of the Constitution

Juan F González-Bertomeu
6. We the People, They the Media: Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments and Public Opinion in Colombia

Vicente F Benítez-R
7. 'Resistance by Interpretation': Supreme Court Justices as Counter-Reformers to Constitutional Changes in Brazil in the 90s

Diego Werneck Arguelhes and Mariana Mota Prado
8. The Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments in Brazil and the Super-Countermajoritarian Role of the Brazilian Supreme Court - The Case of the 'ADI 5017'

Eneida Desiree Salgado and Carolina Alves das Chagas
9. The Role of the Chilean Constitutional Court in Times of Change

Sergio Verdugo

PART III
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND STABILITY
10. The Paradox of Mexico's Constitutional Hyper-Reformism: Enabling Peaceful Transition While Blocking Democratic Consolidation

Francisca Pou Giménez and Andrea Pozas-Loyo
11. The Political Sources of Constitutional Amendment (Non)Difficulty in Mexico

Mariana Velasco Rivera
12. Subnational Constitutionalism and Constitutional Change in Brazil: The Impact of Federalism in Constitutional Stability

Breno Baía Magalhães
13. Legislative Process and Constitutional Change in Brazil: On the Pathologies of the Procedure for Amending the 1988 Constitution

Leonardo Augusto de Andrade Barbosa
14. Transformative Constitutionalism and Extreme Inequality: A Problematic Relationship

Magdalena Correa Henao

Über Autor(innen)

Bernal, Carlos
Carlos Bernal is Professor of Law at the University of Dayton, Ohio.

Albert, Richard
Richard Albert is Director of Constitutional Studies, William Stamps Farish Professor in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Benvindo, Juliano Zaiden
Juliano Zaiden Benvindo is Professor of Constitutional Law and Head of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at the University of Brasília. He is also a fellow at the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and Capes-Humboldt Senior Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany.

Richard Albert is the William Stamps Farish Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin.
Carlos Bernal is a Justice at the Colombian Constitutional Court.
Juliano Zaiden Benvindo is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Brasília in Brazil and a Research Fellow at the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.