Choosing Judges in Brazil
Reassessing Legal Transplants from the United States
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 5345162 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Maria Angela Jardim De Santa Cruz Oliveira (University at Buffalo, State University of New York), Nuno Garoupa (0000-0001-6792-0918, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona) |
| Ano | 2011 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 529-561 |
| Data de publicação | 2011-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The American Journal of Comparative Law (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0002-919X • E-ISSN: 2326-9197 |
| Editora | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5131/ajcl.2010.0020 |
| OpenAlex | W3121713628 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 3 |
| Referências citadas | 12 |
This Paper compares the Brazilian with the United States general procedures of judicial selection at the state and federal levels. The most significant difference between the two approaches is that in Brazil the selection at the lower level is entirely administered by the judiciary, while in the United States, judges are either approved by the executive or elected by popular vote. At the Supreme Court level, however, the Brazilian Constitution uses the same mechanism that is used in the United States, namely presidential nomination and Senate confirmation. This Article contends that the constitutional transplant of the U.S. model of judicial selection, at the Supreme Court level, has produced a marked balance of power between different branches of the Brazilian government and has led to significantly fewer conflicts between the president and the Senate than in the United States. We will try to explain why apparently identical legal institutions have evolved in such different ways, in particular focusing on the specific role of the Senate in confirming presidential nominees
Constitution · Constitutional law · Executive branch · Executive power · Government (linguistics) · Legislature · Nomination · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Presidential system · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Separation of powers · State (computer science) · Supreme court · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems · Legal and Constitutional Studies
| Obras citantes distintas | 3 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,25 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 2 |