Justice and Constitution Center
Starting year: 2010
Coordinators: Prof. Luciana Gross Cunha, Prof. Dimitri Dimoulis
Assistant Researcher: Luciana de Oliveira Ramos
email: luciana.cunha@fgv.br/ luciana.ramos@fgv.br
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Research Area
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Fundamental Rights
Studying the interpretation and implementation of fundamental rights under domestic and foreign rules from the perspective of procedural justice and constitutional issues specific theory (general) law, specifically with regard to methodological choices on the interpretation of constitutional law and issues theory of the norm.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Brazil and Interamerican System of Human Rights
Initiatives in Latin American Law and Democracy
Fundamental Rights and judicial review
Constitutional protection of ethnic minorities and immigrants
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Performance of Justice System
Focuses primarily on the study of justice system administration, from the monitoring and analysis of public policies involving access to justice and the improvement of services provided by judicial institutions.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Reshaping Global Governance: An Empirical Collaborative Study of Indicators in Action
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Brazilian Supreme Court and constitutional jurisprudence
Analyzing the role of Brazilian Supreme Court in the exercise of judicial review through jurisprudential research, in order to exam the relations among STF and other political branches. We also study models of interpretation used by the Brazilian Supreme Court’s justices in its decisions and comparative study of constitutional Courts.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
The decision-making process of recursos extraordinários in Brazilian Supreme Court in 2007-2009
