Tag: Ecuadorian Constitutional Court
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A Convenient Emergency: Perilous Times for Judicial Independence in Ecuador
—Patricia Sotomayor Valarezo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, X: @PatySValarezo The notion of the judiciary’s inherent weakness, as proposed in The Federalist Papers number 78, along with Tsebelis’s idea (Tsebellis 2002) of judges as veto players ultimately absorbed by other political actors, can now be questioned in light of the many judicial decisions with significant…
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The Role of Constitutional Justice in Times of Crisis: The Case of Ecuador
—Andrés Cervantes, Pompeu Fabra University As I write these lines, I am thinking about the complex situation that Ecuador is currently facing because of the national emergency declared over the aggressive progression of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, some of the thoughts expressed here may be also relevant to other Latin-American nations as the Global South…
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I-CONnect Symposium–Contemporary Discussions in Constitutional Law–Part II: Presidential Re-Election in Latin American Case Law: A Work in Progress
[Editor’s Note: This is Part II in our Externado symposium on “Contemporary Discussions in Constitutional Law.” The Introduction to the symposium is available here, and Part I is available here.] –Sabrina Ragone, Associate Professor of Comparative Law, University of Bologna; Senior Research Affiliate, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law The study of Latin…