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Proportionality and Transformation

Theory and Practice from Latin America

Francisca Pou Giménez editor Laura Clérico editor Esteban Restrepo-Saldarriaga editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:3rd Nov '22

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This is the first book on the theory and practice of proportionality in Latin American constitutional law.

This is the first book to address the theory and practice of proportionality in Latin America. It will be valuable for constitutional law scholars, legal practitioners and students interested in understanding how proportionality is part of larger projects of using constitutional law to confront power abuse and pervasive social inequality.This is the first book on proportionality in Latin American constitutional law. Leading scholars in the region explore how proportionality analysis has become a key part of the constitutional law of a region where, almost paradoxically, constitutions with clear transformative intentions coexist with the highest indicators of social inequality in the world. In this book, scholars, practitioners and students will find a fascinating account of how proportionality has been a central concept in Latin America's constitutional struggles to curtail excessive uses of state power. The book illustrates how, more recently, proportionality has played an important role in national processes of constitutionalization and transitional justice, and how its current uses in the domain of social rights endow it with a distinctive meaning and role in regional constitutionalism. This pioneering book opens up the space for a much needed global conversation on how Latin America has decisively contributed to comparative constitutional law.

ISBN: 9781009201803

Dimensions: 235mm x 159mm x 24mm

Weight: 650g

376 pages