The Unwritten Brazilian Constitution
eBook - PDF

The Unwritten Brazilian Constitution

Human Rights in the Supremo Tribunal Federal

  1. 285 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Unwritten Brazilian Constitution

Human Rights in the Supremo Tribunal Federal

About this book

The Unwritten Brazilian Constitution offers an unexplored topic outside Portuguese language: the leading cases on human rights in the Brazilian Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal – STF). The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 represents an institutional framework able to restructure the relationship between the powers after the military dictatorship. The constituents drafted the Brazilian Constitution in order to set an extensive system of judicial protection for fundamental rights, by means of several instruments that have strengthened access to the Judiciary. Because the Brazilian Constitution has an extensive list of fundamental rights, the STF was called to interpret them several times and it developed an unwritten understanding of these fundamental rights. These decisions are not available to the international community since they are not translated to English. Based on this gap, this original book illustrates the main rulings on human rights analyzed by great scholars in Brazil. The text presents a deep discussion regarding the characteristics of the cases and demonstrates how the STF has built the legal arguments to interpret the extension of the fundamental rights.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9781978776388
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Civil Rights in Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Unwritten Brazilian Constitution
  3. The Unwritten BrazilianConstitutionHuman Rights in the SupremoTribunal Federal
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter 1
  7. The Promises of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 and the Encounter between Human Rights and the Supreme Court
  8. Chapter 2
  9. The Brazilian Supreme Court and Its Political Protagonism
  10. Chapter 3
  11. Freedom of Speech
  12. Chapter 4
  13. Asking “The Woman Question”
  14. Chapter 5
  15. Embryonic Stem-Cells Research at the Brazilian Supreme Court
  16. Chapter 6
  17. Affirmative Action at the Federal Supreme Court
  18. Chapter 7
  19. Gay Marriage
  20. Chapter 8
  21. Criminalization of Homophobia—Trial at the Brazilian Supreme Court
  22. Chapter 9
  23. Political Citizenship
  24. Chapter 10
  25. Corporate Campaign Donations
  26. Chapter 11
  27. Home-Schooling and Religious Education in Brazil
  28. Chapter 12
  29. High Cost Medicines and Medical Treatments in the Supremo Tribunal Federal (Brazilian Supreme Court)
  30. Chapter 13
  31. The Presumption of Innocence
  32. Chapter 14
  33. The Unconstitutional State of Affairs in Brazil’s Prisons
  34. Chapter 15
  35. Expanding Constitutional Dialogues in the Judicial Review
  36. Index
  37. About the Authors