Constitutional Reasoning in Latin America and the Caribbean

Johanna Fröhlich is Assistant Research Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

• 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 Methodology1. Introduction - Conceptualizing and Measuring Constitutional Reasoning in Latin America and the Caribbean Commonwealth, Johanna Fröhlich (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile), Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero (Tallinn University, Estonia), 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 Caribbean3. 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 Caribbean18. 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)AppendicesThe Selected Landmark Cases by JurisdictionCORE Code BookQuestionnaire for Country Reports