Tag: Brazilian constitution
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Abusive Legalism Against Indigenous Minorities: Challenges of the Marco Temporal II Case before the Brazilian Supreme Court
—Ranieri L Resende, Postdoctoral Researcher, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)[1] Soon after celebrating a historic victory before the Supreme Court in the Marco Temporal I case, which held that the date of promulgation of the Constitution could not be used as the mandatory date for the demarcation of indigenous lands, Brazilian indigenous peoples…
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Interculturality and Brazil’s Marco temporal
—Sebastian Abad Jara, LLM in International Law, University of Cambridge; Daniel Pereira Campos, PhD candidate at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Brazilian law on indigenous lands is perhaps one the most significant examples of a detachment between “law in books” and “law in action”, with a substantial impact on the rights of indigenous peoples.
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The Institutional Design of Brazilian Electoral Justice
–Antonio Moreira Maués, Federal University of Para During the 2022 elections, another actor stood out in Brazil in addition to the candidates and political parties: the Superior Electoral Court. Part of this prominence was due to the behavior of the President of the Republic and candidate for reelection, Jair Bolsonaro.
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part III. Ethnographic Encounters with Brazil’s Constitutions
—Jeffrey Omari, Northern Illinois University, School of Law Even after transitioning to a constitutional democracy at the end of its military dictatorship in the mid 1980s, Brazil has remained a country with a deep history of socioeconomic inequality. Indeed, during their control of the presidency from January 2003 through August 2016, a primary aim of…
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Holding Bolsonaro Accountable: Learning From the Past to Build the Future
—Heloisa Fernandes Câmara, Associate Professor, Federal University of Paraná [Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final substantive post in the ICONnect symposium on the new Lula government in Brazil and the challenge of democratic erosion after Bolsonaro. For the introduction to the symposium, see here.]
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The Armed Forces after Bolsonaro
—Adriana Marques, Assistant Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro [Editor’s Note: This is the third substantive post in the ICONnect symposium on the new Lula government in Brazil and the challenge of democratic erosion after Bolsonaro. For the introduction to the symposium, see here.]
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The Return of Brazil to the International Arena of Human Rights
—Estefânia Maria de Queiroz Barboza and Melina Girardi Fachin, Federal University of Paraná [Editor’s Note: This is the second substantive post in the ICONnect symposium on the new Lula government in Brazil and the challenge of democratic erosion after Bolsonaro. For the introduction to the symposium, see here.]
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Challenges of the Lula Government in the Context of Latin America
—Talita São Thiago Tanscheit, Associate Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of Diego Portales University [Editor’s Note: This is the first substantive post in the ICONnect symposium on the new Lula government in Brazil and the challenge of democratic erosion after Bolsonaro.
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Symposium on the Challenges of the Lula Government in Reversing Democratic Erosion in Brazil: Introduction
—Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, University of Brasília and Conrado Hübner Mendes, University of São Paulo Bolsonaro is gone, but not bolsonarism. Neither the shadow of Bolsonaro, who left the country before Lula’s inauguration and, without recognizing electoral defeat, has been living in Florida ever since.
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Brazil’s Most Important Election Ever: What is at Stake and What Might Happen Next?
—Emílio Peluso Neder Meyer, Federal University of Minas Gerais, and Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, University of Brasília Brazil’s next elections will be held on Sunday, October 2. More than any other political event since the country’s transition to democracy in 1985, these elections are an inflection point for Brazil’s near and long future.