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Constitutional Change and Transformation in Latin America Professor Richard Albert

Constitutional Change and Transformation in Latin America By Professor Richard Albert

Constitutional Change and Transformation in Latin America by Professor Richard Albert


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Constitutional Change and Transformation in Latin America by Professor Richard Albert

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.

About Professor Richard Albert

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 Brasilia in Brazil and a Research Fellow at the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.

Table of Contents

Foreword: The Life and Death of Constitutions in Latin America: Constitutional Amendments, the Role of Courts and Democracy Luis 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 Jose Goncalves 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 Courts Doctrine on the Substitution of the Constitution Juan F Gonzalez-Bertomeu 6. We the People, They the Media: Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments and Public Opinion in Colombia Vicente F Benitez-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 Mexicos Constitutional Hyper-Reformism: Enabling Peaceful Transition While Blocking Democratic Consolidation Francisca Pou Gimenez 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 Baia Magalhaes 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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NLS9781509946273
9781509946273
1509946276
Constitutional Change and Transformation in Latin America by Professor Richard Albert
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2021-01-21
376
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