Transforming Politics: Intersection of Judicial Power, Activism and Legislative Decline in Brazil
- 1 School of Law, IDEA, São Luís, Brazil
- 2 School of Law, IDEA, São Luís, Brazil
- 3 Institutions of the Justice System (PPGDIR/UFMA), Federal University of Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil
- 4 School of Law, IDEA, São Luís, Brazil
Abstract
The paper analyses judicial activism and the judicialization of politics as a probable result of legislature’s inactivity. Using a methodology based on a both qualitative and inductive perspective, research aims to answer if Brazilian parliament omits itself from its constitutional duties thus allowing a dramatic political transformation through which the Supreme Court can disguise constitutional interpretation to enforce nonpreviously written rules out of political process and without check, transforming politics. Based on the socio-legal-critical method, this research adopts the exploratory technique, aiming to define and clarify conceptual frameworks and ideas that already exist in the literature, without, however, disregarding the explanatory, bibliographical and jurisprudential techniques, essential for the accomplishment of this work.
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