Constitutional change and transformation in Latin America

Albert, Richard

Constitutional change and transformation in Latin America - Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021. - xiv, 357 p.

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 / Richard Albert, Carlos Bernal and Juliano Zaiden Benvindo
Constitution-making (without constituent) power : on the conceptual limits of the power to replace or revise the constitution / Carlos Bernal
Continuity and change in Latin America : the ever-present authoritarianism and the democratic capacities of the new Latin American constitutions / Fernando José Gonçalves Acunha
Constitutional moments and constitutional thresholds in Brazil : mass protests and the "performative meaning" of constitutionalism / Juliano Zaiden Benvindo
Constitutional unamendability in Latin America gone wrong? / Yaniv Roznai
The Colombian Constitutional Court's doctrine on the substitution of the constitution / Juan F Gonzalez-Bertomeu
We the people, they the media: judicial review of constitutional amendment and public opinion in Colombia / Vicente F Benitez-R
"Resistance by interpretation" : supreme court justices as counter-reformers to constitutional changes in Brazil in the 90s / Diego Werneck Arguelhes & Mariana Mota Prado
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 & Carolina Alves das Chagas
The role of the Chilean Constitutional court in times of change / Sergio Verdugo
The paradox of Mexican constitutional hyper-reformism : enabling peaceful transition while blocking democratic consolidation / Francisca Pou Giménez & Andrea Pozas-Loyo
The political sources of constitutional amendment (non)difficulty in Mexico / Mariana Velasco Rivera
Subnational constitutionalism and constitutional change in Brazil : the impact of federalism in constitutional stability / Breno aía Magalhães
Legislative process and constitutional change in Brazil : on the pathologies of the procedure for amending the 1988 constitution / Leonardo Augusto de Andrade Barbosa
Transformative constitutionalism and extreme inequality : a problematic relationship / Magdalena Correa Henao

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Constitutional law
Constitutional law Latin America
Latin America

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