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OverviewContemporary democracies have granted an expansive amount of power to unelected judges that sit in constitutional or supreme courts. This power shift has never been easily squared with the institutional backbones through which democracy is popularly supposed to be structured. The best institutional translation of a 'government of the people, by the people and for the people' is usually expressed through elections and electoral representation in parliaments. Judicial review of legislation has been challenged as bypassing that common sense conception of democratic rule. The alleged 'democratic deficit' behind what courts are legally empowered to do has been met with a variety of justifications in favour of judicial review. One common justification claims that constitutional courts are, in comparison to elected parliaments, much better suited for impartial deliberation and public reason-giving. Fundamental rights would thus be better protected by that insulated mode of decision-making. This justification has remained largely superficial and, sometimes, too easily embraced.This book analyses the argument that the legitimacy of courts arises from their deliberative capacity. It examines the theory of political deliberation and its implications for institutional design. Against this background, it turns to constitutional review and asks whether an argument can be made in support of judicial power on the basis of deliberative theory. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Conrado Hübner Mendes (Professor-Doctor of Constitutional Law, University of São Paulo, Professor-Doctor of Constitutional Law, University of São Paulo)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9780199670451ISBN 10: 0199670455 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 19 December 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Political deliberation and collective decision-making 2: Political deliberation and legal decision-making 3: Political deliberation and constitutional scrutiny 4: Deliberative performance of constitutional courts 5: The ethics of political deliberation 6: Institutional design: augmenting deliberative potential 7: The legal backdrop of constitutional scrutiny 8: The political circumstances of constitutional scrutiny 9: No heroic court, no heroic judgesReviewsWinner of 2014 Brazilian Political Science Association's Victor Nunes Leal Prize Author InformationConrado Hübner Mendes is Professor-Doctor of Constitutional Law at the University of São Paulo (USP). He holds a PhD in legal theory at the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in political science at the University of São Paulo (USP). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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