Between bats and hummingbirds: critical reflections on constitutional jurisdiction in Brazil

Authors

  • Maren Guimarães Taborda PUCRS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7718.2014.1.16549

Keywords:

Constitutional jurisdiction, Technical forms on the judicial review, Abstract control, “Extraordinary appeal”.

Abstract

This paper is about the peculiarities of Constitutional Jurisdiction in Brazil, critically analyzed in terms of the relationship between rule of law and Jurisdiction and its purposes. It is also stated the need and the value to understand and to use the administrative jurisdiction as one of the technical ways to ensure the Constitution as well as to point out the contradictions and difficulties of adopting a hybrid system of judicial review. It is argued, therefore, the theoretical and practical inadequacy of using procedural instruments of different systems of judicial review.

Author Biography

Maren Guimarães Taborda, PUCRS

Published

2014-02-13

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