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The Unwritten Brazilian Constitution
The Unwritten Brazilian Constitution offers an unexplored topic outside Portuguese language: the leading cases on human rights in the Brazilian Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal – STF). The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 represents an institutional framework able to restructure the relationship between the powers after the military dictatorship. The constituents drafted the Brazilian Constitution in order to set an extensive system of judicial protection for fundamental rights, by means of several instruments that have strengthened access to the Judiciary. Because the Brazilian Constitution has an extensive list of fundamental rights, the STF was called to interpret them several times and it developed an unwritten understanding of these fundamental rights. These decisions are not available to the international community since they are not translated to English. Based on this gap, this original book illustrates the main rulings on human rights analyzed by great scholars in Brazil. The text presents a deep discussion regarding the characteristics of the cases and demonstrates how the STF has built the legal arguments to interpret the extension of the fundamental rights.
Drowning in Laws
Since 1943, the lives of Brazilian working people and their employers have been governed by the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT). Seen as the end of an exclusively repressive approach, the CLT was long hailed as one of the world's most advanced bodies of social legislation. In Drowning in Laws, John D. French examines the juridical origins of the CLT and the role it played in the cultural and political formation of the Brazilian working class. Focusing on the relatively open political era known as the Populist Republic of 1945 to 1964, French illustrates the glaring contrast between the generosity of the CLT's legal promises and the meager justice meted out in workplaces, government ministries, and labor courts. He argues that the law, from the outset, was more an ideal than a set of enforceable regulations--there was no intention on the part of leaders and bureaucrats to actually practice what was promised, yet workers seized on the CLT's utopian premises while attacking its systemic flaws. In the end, French says, the labor laws became "real" in the workplace only to the extent that workers struggled to turn the imaginary ideal into reality.
Latin American Perspectives on Law and Religion
This book makes a valuable contribution to the fascinating global debate on the meaning and scope of freedom of religion or belief and the relations between state, society and religion. It offers a cross-thematic approach to law and religion from the Global South. Law and religion have been consolidated to form a specific area of study in recent years. However, due to language barriers, most of the regional and national debates within Latin America have not been accessible to interested audiences from other parts of the world. Despite the specificities of the Latin American context, the issues, arrangements and processes that have been negotiated and developed in this part of the Global Sout...
On the Limits of Constitutional Adjudication
Juliano Z. Benvindo investigates the current movement of constitutional courts towards political activism, especially by focusing on the increasing use of the balancing method as a “rational” justification for this process. From the critical perception of the serious risks of this movement to democracy, the book takes as examples two constitutional realities, Germany and Brazil, in order to discuss the rationality, correctness, and legitimacy of constitutional decisions within this context. Through a dialogue between Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction and Jürgen Habermas’s proceduralism, the author confronts Robert Alexy’s defense of the balancing method as well as those two constitutional realities. This confrontation leads to the introduction of the concept of limited rationality applied to constitutional democracy and constitutional adjudication, which affirms the double bind of history and justice as a condition for a practice of decision-making committed to the principle of separation of powers.
Brazil, Land of the Past: The Ideological Roots of the New Right
Brazil, Land of the Past scrutinizes the ideological roots of the so-called New Right in Brazil. The book traces the continuity and resilience of a system of thought based on the idea of a God-given hierarchical order to be defended against any social contract and modernizing relativization. It explains in detail how today a diverse movement — which includes actors ranging from the authoritarian Bolsonaro wing to economic liberals to the military to both Catholic and evangelical religious conservatives – assumes unanimously the ideas of this tradition as underlying premises of their political action. Though not always explicitly, this drives the self-declared “liberal-conservative” but rather anti-modernist reaction which claims to liberate an imaginary authentic “Brazil” from an aberrant “State” – and in so doing intends to preserve inherited privilege in an extremely unequal society.
Certainty in Law
Instead of the usual apologetic treatment found in legal doctrine, linked to the determinacy, immutability or predictability of norms, this book treats legal certainty innovatively, holistically and in depth. Using a method at once analytical and functional, Professor Ávila examines the structural elements of legal certainty, from its definition and foundations to its various dimensions, normative forces and efficacies, citing a wealth of examples from case law to support each of the theses defended. No subject is more important and topical than legal certainty. Problems relating to lack of understanding, instability and unpredictability of law intensify day by day everywhere, in civil law ...
Individuals' Income Under Double Taxation Conventions
This book analyses the treatment of income of individuals under Brazilian double taxation conventions. Each article of the Brazilian tax treaties is analysed in order to identify its characteristics, field of application, limits and criteria applied in the identification of taxpayers. The OECD Model Convention is also considered, since it is mirrored in Brazilian conventions. The analysis reveals the unconstitutional nature of Articles 17 and 19 of the Brazilian treaties as they contradict the constitutional principle of isonomy.
ICMS
Esta obra estuda de forma completa e sistematizada o Imposto sobre Operações Relativas à Circulação de Mercadorias e sobre Prestações de Serviços de Transportes Interestadual e Intermunicipal e de Comunicação, conhecido pela sigla ICMS. O ICMS é um tributo de vocação nacional, porém, inserido na competência dos Estados por razões de política tributária. Por isso, ele mereceu uma estruturação completa no próprio texto constitucional e sem prejuízo da Lei Complementar no 87/96, que estatui as normas gerais aplicáveis em âmbito nacional. Por esse motivo, iniciamos a obra com o exame do imposto sob sua antiga denominação, Imposto sobre Operações Relativas à Circulaç...
O grande dilema
O presente livro é uma atualização da pesquisa interdisciplinar realizada pela autora durante seu mestrado em ciência jurídica, a fim de averiguar se seria constitucional ou não a legalização do aborto no Brasil. Em um primeiro momento é estudado o direito à vida e sua tutela no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, a fim de constatar desde quando a vida deve ser protegida no Brasil. Observam-se, ainda, as evidências científicas a respeito do início da vida. Após, é analisada a evolução histórica do aborto no mundo e no Brasil e apresentadas as inverdades que permeiam o debate a respeito da legalização da prática. São, ainda, estudadas as consequências do aborto para a mul...
Lições de Fiscalidade - Princípios Gerais e Fiscalidade Interna - 7a Edição
As Lições de Fiscalidade agregam num estudo monográfico os fundamentos, composição e descrição do sistema fiscal português. Ao longo da obra os vários Autores - que têm uma larga experiência de aplicação, pesquisa e ensino na área - foram atualizando e integrando as matérias por forma a fornecer um estudo claro, minucioso e acessível. A dificuldade de conseguir um texto simultaneamente rigoroso e didático foi ultrapassada com base num conhecimento sólido e pragmático capaz de ensinar e explicar conceitos reservados só aos especialistas. Nesse sentido o texto que agora se dá à apreciação dos Leitores é uma obra de consulta indispensável no tratamento de qualquer das ...
