Deliberative constitutionalism ‘without shortcuts’: on the deliberative potential of Cristina Lafont’s judicial review theory

Deliberative constitutionalism is one of the most important developments of recent decades in constitutional theory and practice. It is in this context that Cristina Lafont’s Democracy Without Shortcuts was published. Lafont’s theory provides an opportunity to advance the research agenda on delibera...

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Autor: Giuffré, C. Ignacio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57619
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Palabra clave:constitutional democracy
deliberative constitutionalism
deliberative democracy
judicial dialogue
judicial review
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spelling Deliberative constitutionalism ‘without shortcuts’: on the deliberative potential of Cristina Lafont’s judicial review theoryGiuffré, C. Ignacioconstitutional democracydeliberative constitutionalismdeliberative democracyjudicial dialoguejudicial reviewDeliberative constitutionalism is one of the most important developments of recent decades in constitutional theory and practice. It is in this context that Cristina Lafont’s Democracy Without Shortcuts was published. Lafont’s theory provides an opportunity to advance the research agenda on deliberative constitutionalism since she offers a deliberative democratic reinterpretation of judicial review. According to this compelling and powerful idea, citizens can challenge any laws in constitutional courts and thus trigger democratic deliberation about rights. With this issue in mind, this article offers a general approach to deliberative constitutionalism, describes Lafont’s reinterpretation of judicial review, and makes explicit five tensions in this reinterpretation of judicial review vis-à-vis deliberative constitutionalism: (1) the default authority in the interim; (2) the procedural type of constitutional amendment; (3) the scope of judicial review; (4) the irrelevance of constitutional amendments; and (5) the scope of constituent power.Cambridge University Press202320232022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/57619http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S2045381722000211reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésGlobal Constitutionalism. 2022;12(2):215-33.© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/576192026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Deliberative constitutionalism ‘without shortcuts’: on the deliberative potential of Cristina Lafont’s judicial review theory
spellingShingle Deliberative constitutionalism ‘without shortcuts’: on the deliberative potential of Cristina Lafont’s judicial review theory
Giuffré, C. Ignacio
constitutional democracy
deliberative constitutionalism
deliberative democracy
judicial dialogue
judicial review
title_short Deliberative constitutionalism ‘without shortcuts’: on the deliberative potential of Cristina Lafont’s judicial review theory
title_full Deliberative constitutionalism ‘without shortcuts’: on the deliberative potential of Cristina Lafont’s judicial review theory
title_fullStr Deliberative constitutionalism ‘without shortcuts’: on the deliberative potential of Cristina Lafont’s judicial review theory
title_full_unstemmed Deliberative constitutionalism ‘without shortcuts’: on the deliberative potential of Cristina Lafont’s judicial review theory
title_sort Deliberative constitutionalism ‘without shortcuts’: on the deliberative potential of Cristina Lafont’s judicial review theory
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Giuffré, C. Ignacio
author Giuffré, C. Ignacio
author_facet Giuffré, C. Ignacio
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv constitutional democracy
deliberative constitutionalism
deliberative democracy
judicial dialogue
judicial review
topic constitutional democracy
deliberative constitutionalism
deliberative democracy
judicial dialogue
judicial review
description Deliberative constitutionalism is one of the most important developments of recent decades in constitutional theory and practice. It is in this context that Cristina Lafont’s Democracy Without Shortcuts was published. Lafont’s theory provides an opportunity to advance the research agenda on deliberative constitutionalism since she offers a deliberative democratic reinterpretation of judicial review. According to this compelling and powerful idea, citizens can challenge any laws in constitutional courts and thus trigger democratic deliberation about rights. With this issue in mind, this article offers a general approach to deliberative constitutionalism, describes Lafont’s reinterpretation of judicial review, and makes explicit five tensions in this reinterpretation of judicial review vis-à-vis deliberative constitutionalism: (1) the default authority in the interim; (2) the procedural type of constitutional amendment; (3) the scope of judicial review; (4) the irrelevance of constitutional amendments; and (5) the scope of constituent power.
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