REASON WITHOUT VOTE: THE REPRESENTATIVE AND MAJORITARIAN FUNCTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS

Authors

  • Luís Roberto Barroso Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) and Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21783/rei.v2i2.79

Keywords:

Constitutional Courts, Political Representation, Countermajoritarism

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Author Biography

Luís Roberto Barroso, Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) and Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.

Judge of the Supremo Tribunal Federal, Brazil. Titular Professor of Constitutional Law at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. LLM, Yale. SJD and "Livre-Docente" (Habilitation to Professorship), Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Visiting Scholar at Université de Poitiers, França (2010) and Harvard University, USA (2011).

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2017-02-01

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Barroso, L. R. (2017). REASON WITHOUT VOTE: THE REPRESENTATIVE AND MAJORITARIAN FUNCTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS. JOURNAL OF INSTITUTIONAL STUDIES, 2(2), 517–546. https://doi.org/10.21783/rei.v2i2.79

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