Overview

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.

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Author:   Professor Richard Albert ,  Professor Carlos Bernal ,  Juliano Zaiden Benvindo
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9781509946273

ISBN 10:   1509946276
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   21 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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