This book examines the reasoning practice of 15 constitutional courts and supreme courts, including the Caribbean Commonwealth and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Enriched by empirical data, with which it strives to contribute to a constructive and well-informed debate, the volume analyses how Latin American courts justify their decisions.
Based on original data and a region-specific methodology, the book provides a systematic analysis utilising more than 600 leading cases. It shows which interpretive methods and concepts are most favoured by Latin American courts, and which courts were the most prolific in their reasoning activities.
The volume traces the features of judicial dialogue on a regional and sub-regional level and enables the evaluation and comparison of each country’s reasoning culture in different epochs. The collection includes several graphs to visualise the changes and tendencies of the reasoning practices throughout time in the region, based on information gathered from the dataset.
To better understand the current functioning and the future tendencies of courts in Latin America and the Caribbean, the volume illuminates how constitutional and supreme courts have actually been making their decisions in the selected landmark cases, which could also contribute to future successful litigation strategies for both national constitutional courts and the Inter-American Court for Human Rights.
This project was made possible due to the collaboration and funding provided by the Rule of Law Programme for Latin America of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Law School of the University of San Francisco de Quito.
Foreword, Paolo G Carozza (University of Notre Dame, USA) Special Note by the Director of the Rule of Law Program for Latin America of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Hartmut Rank (Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Colombia) Editor's Preface, Johanna Fröhlich (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) Part I: Foundations and Methodology 1. Introduction - Conceptualizing and Measuring Constitutional Reasoning in Latin America and the Caribbean Commonwealth, Johanna Fröhlich (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile), Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero (European University Institute, Italy), and Carlos Meléndez (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile) 2. Constitutional Tradition in Latin America and the Caribbean, Pier Paolo Pigozzi (Ludovika University of Public Service, Hungary) Part II: The Mosaic of Constitutional Reasoning in Latin America and the Caribbean 3. The Supreme Court of Argentina, Andrea Castagnola (University of Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina), Alejandro Chehtman (University of Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina) and Sergio Muro (University of Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina) 4. The Jurisprudence of the Bolivian Constitutional Court, Sergio Verdugo (IE University, Spain) 5. The Jurisprudence of the Supreme Federal Tribunal of Brazil, Diego Werneck Arguelhes (Insper, Brazil), Ivar A Hartmann (Insper, Brazil) and Rafael Bellem de Lima (Insper, Brazil) 6. The Jurisprudence of the Commonwealth Caribbean, Derek O’Brien (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 7. The Jurisprudence of the Chilean Constitutional Court, Cristián Villalonga (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) and Francisco Javier Urbina (University of Notre Dame, USA) 8. The Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of Colombia, Magdalena Correa Henao (Universidad Externado, Colombia) and Jorge Ernesto Roa Roa (Universidad Externado, Colombia) 9. The Jurisprudence of the Fourth Chamber of the Supreme Court of Costa Rica, Ariana Macaya (University of Costa Rica) 10. The Jurisprudence of the Ecuadoran Constitutional Court, Johanna Fröhlich (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) 11. The Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of Guatemala, Carlos Arturo Villagrán Sandoval (New York University, USA) 12. The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Pablo Gonzalez Domínguez (Universidad Panamericana, Mexico) and Alfredo Ortega (Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala) 13. The Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation of Mexico, Roberto Niembro Ortega (Mexican Supreme Court of Justice) and Irene Spigno (Academia Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Mexico) 14. The Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Paraguay, María José Garcia Ascolani (Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora De la Asunción, Paraguay) and Juan Pablo Irrazabal (University of Bonn, Germany) 15. The Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of Peru, Abraham Siles (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru), Rosa Llique (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru) and María Alejandra Espino (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru) 16. The Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Uruguay, María Paula Garat Delgado (Pontifical Catholic University of Uruguay) and Anna Luisa Walter de Santana (Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil) 17. The Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Chamber of the Venezuelan Supreme Court, Juan Berríos Ortigoza (Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela) and Raúl Sánchez Urribarri (La Trobe University, Australia) Part III: Principal Tendencies of Constitutional Reasoning in Latin America and the Caribbean 18. The Notion of the Rule of Law in the Constitutional Reasoning of Latin America and the Caribbean, Marie-Christine Fuchs (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany), Juan Camilo Herrera (Greystone Consulting Group Latinoamérica y Jurídica Herrera Sattler & Ossa, Colombia) and Miguel Barboza López (Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Colombia) 19. The Constitutional Dialogue Between the Inter-American and the European Courts of Human Rights: Toward an Increasing Influence of the Inter-American Jurisprudence? Anna Maria Lecis Cocco Ortu (Sciences Po Bordeaux, France) and Tania Groppi (University of Siena, Italy) 20. The Argumentative Turn in Constitutional Reasoning in Latin America and the Caribbean, Johanna Fröhlich (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) Appendices The Selected Landmark Cases by Jurisdiction CORE Code Book Questionnaire for Country Reports
Johanna Fröhlich is Assistant Research Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
