Constitutional Change and Transformation in Latin America

Richard Albert is the William Stamps Farish Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin.Carlos Bernal is a Justice at the Colombian Constitutional Court.Juliano Zaiden Benvindo is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Brasília in Brazil and a Research Fellow at the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.

• Foreword: The Life and Death of Constitutions in Latin America: Constitutional Amendments, the Role of Courts and Democracy Luís Roberto BarrosoIntroduction: Facts and Fictions in Latin American Constitutionalism Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, Carlos Bernal and Richard AlbertPART IPOPULAR AND POPULIST CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY1. Constitution-Making (without Constituent) Power: On the Conceptual Limits of the Power to Replace or Revise the Constitution Carlos Bernal2. Continuity and Change in Latin America: The Ever-Present Authoritarianism and the Democratic Capacities of the New Latin American Constitutions Fernando José Gonçalves Acunha3. Constitutional Moments and Constitutional Th resholds in Brazil: Mass Protests and the ‘Performative Meaning’ of Constitutionalism Juliano Zaiden Benvindo4. Constitutional Unamendability in Latin America Gone Wrong? Yaniv RoznaiPART IIJUDICIAL REVIEW OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT5. The Colombian Constitutional Court’s Doctrine on the Substitution of the Constitution Juan F González-Bertomeu6. We the People, They the Media: Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments and Public Opinion in Colombia Vicente F Benítez-R7. ‘Resistance by Interpretation’: Supreme Court Justices as Counter-Reformers to Constitutional Changes in Brazil in the 90s Diego Werneck Arguelhes and Mariana Mota Prado8. The Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments in Brazil and the Super-Countermajoritarian Role of the Brazilian Supreme Court – The Case of the ‘ADI 5017’ Eneida Desiree Salgado and Carolina Alves das Chagas9. The Role of the Chilean Constitutional Court in Times of Change Sergio VerdugoPART IIICONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND STABILITY10. The Paradox of Mexico’s Constitutional Hyper-Reformism: Enabling Peaceful Transition While Blocking Democratic Consolidation Francisca Pou Giménez and Andrea Pozas-Loyo11. The Political Sources of Constitutional Amendment (Non)Difficulty in Mexico Mariana Velasco Rivera12. Subnational Constitutionalism and Constitutional Change in Brazil: The Impact of Federalism in Constitutional Stability Breno Baía Magalhães13. Legislative Process and Constitutional Change in Brazil: On the Pathologies of the Procedure for Amending the 1988 Constitution Leonardo Augusto de Andrade Barbosa14. Transformative Constitutionalism and Extreme Inequality: A Problematic Relationship Magdalena Correa Henao