About the Authors
Contributors
Luis Roberto Barroso Supremo Tribunal Federal, Brasilia, DF, Brazil
Thomas Bustamante Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Vera Karam de Chueiri Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Stephen Gardbaum MacArthur Foundation Professor of International Justice & Human Rights, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Roberto Gargarella Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, CABA, Argentina
Eric Ghosh School of Law, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia
Bernardo Goncalves Fernandes Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ronaldo Porto Macedo Jr.
Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, USAFundacao Getulio Vargas - Escola de Direito, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Andrei Marmor Cornell Law School, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Gonzalo Andres Ramirez Cleves Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
Katharina Stevens Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Mark Tushnet Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA
Wil J. Waluchow Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Christopher F. Zurn Philosophy Department, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA
Biographies
Luis Roberto Barroso is a justice of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court and a full professor of constitutional law of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ). He is currently a visiting professor of the University of Brasilia (UnB). Barroso has a doctorate from UERJ and a master of laws from Yale Law School. He has a postdoctoral fellowship from Harvard University Law School. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Poitiers (France) and from the University of Wroclaw (Poland).
Thomas Bustamante graduated from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, and has a master’s degree from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and a doctorate in law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, with a period of research at the University of Edinburgh, in the UK, with a CAPES scholarship. He is currently associate professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), where he is a permanent member of the Centre of Graduate Research Studies in Law. He has been a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, in the UK, from 2008 to 2010, and an adjunct professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (from 2004 to 2008), where he has been head of the Department of Public Law. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sao Paulo in the year of 2015. He undertakes financed research with grants from the CNPQ and the National Council of Justice. Among his publications featured are the books ArgumentaQdo Contra Legem (2003) and Teoria do Precedente (2012) and the edited books On the Philosophy of Precedent (2012), with Carlos Bernal Pulido; Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation (2015), with Christian Dahlman; and Human Rights, Rule of Law and the Contemporary Social Challenges in Complex Societies (2012), with Oche Onazi.
Vera Karam de Chueiri has a law degree from the Universidade Federal do Parana, a master’s degree from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, a master’s in philosophy from the New School for Social Research, and a doctorate in philosophy from the New School for Social Research. She is currently a professor of constitutional law from the Law School of the Federal University of Parana (UFPR). Her publications include the books Fundamentos de Direito Constitucional (2008) and Before the Law: Philosophy and Literature (2006).
Stephen Gardbaum is the MacArthur Foundation professor of international justice and human rights at the University of California in Los Angeles. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 2011-2012 and a Straus fellow at New York University in 2012-2013.
An internationally recognized constitutional scholar, Gardbaum received a B.A. with first class honors from Oxford University, an M.Sc. from London University, a Ph.D. in political theory from Columbia, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and teaches constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, international human rights, European Union law, and comparative law. Professor Gardbaum’s scholarship focuses on comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, and federalism. One of his recent publications is the book The New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2013).Roberto Gargarella is a doctor in law (UBA 1991, Univ. Chicago 1993). He has been a postdoctoral scholar at Balliol College, Oxford (1994). He was visiting professor at Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Columbia University (NY) and Bergen and Oslo (Norway), among others, and visiting researcher at NYU, Harvard, and ITAM (Mexico). His last books are The Legal Foundations of Inequality (Cambridge UP 2010) and Latin American Constitutionalism (OUP, 2013).
Eric Ghosh is a senior lecturer in the Law School at the University of New England, NSW, Australia, where he teaches jurisprudence and administrative law. His research interests include the republican political tradition, deliberative democracy, and constitutional theory. His articles have been published in journals including Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and History of Political Thought.
Bernardo Goncalves Fernandes graduated in law from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He has a master’s degree in constitutional law from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and a doctorate from the same university. He is currently associate professor of constitutional theory and constitutional law of the Federal University of Minas Gerias and adjunct professor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais. He has taught at the Federal University of Ouro Preto.
He has experience in public law, with emphasis in legal hermeneutics, constitutional theory, and constitutional law. He is author of Brazil’s best-selling textbook on constitutional law, with an average edition of 20,000 copies per year ( Curso de Direito Constitutional, 7th edition, 2015).Ronaldo Porto Macedo Jr. has a law degree, a degree in social sciences, a master’s in philosophy, and a doctorate in law, all from the University of Sao Paulo. He is full professor of legal philosophy at the University of Sao Paulo and professor of political philosophy, ethics, and legal theory at the Law School of Getulio Vargas Foundation. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School (1994-1996) and a visiting researcher at Yale Law School (2002). He has also done a postdoctoral sabbatical year at King’s College of London. Among his publications are the books Do Xadrez a Cortesia (2013), which has been translated into Spanish, Carl Schmitt e a Fundamentagao do Direito (2nd edn, 2011), and Direito e Interpretagao (2011).
Andrei Marmor is the Jacob Gould Schurman professor of philosophy and law, at the University of Cornell. Prior to joining Cornell in 2015, he was professor of philosophy and Maurice Jones Jr professor of law at the University of Southern California. Having obtained his first law and philosophy degrees at the Tel Aviv University in Israel and a D.Phil. at Oxford University, UK, he returned to Tel Aviv University, where he taught as professor of law for ten years, before moving to the USA. His most recent books include Social Conventions: From Language to Law (Princeton, 2009), Philosophy of Law (Princeton, 2011), and The Language of Law (Oxford, 2014). His books and articles also appeared in numerous translations, including Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, and Italian. Marmor is the founding editor of the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy and the editor of several important volumes in legal philosophy, including, most recently, The Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law (with Scott Soames, Oxford 2011) and The Routlege Companion to Philosophy of Law.
Gonzalo Andres Ramirez-Cleves is juris doctor from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2003) and has a specialization degree in constitutional law and politics from the Centro de Estudios Constitutionals y Politicos de Madrid (2000) and a law degree from the Universidad Externado de Colombia (1997). Among his publications the following books are featured: Los limites a la reforma constitucional y las garantias - limites del poder constituyente: los derechos fundamentales como paradigma (Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2003); Limites de la reforma constitucional en Colombia: El concepto de constitution como fundamento de la restriction (Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2005), and Pobreza, globalization y derecho: ambitos global, international y regional de regulation (Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2009).
Katharina Stevens is a doctoral candidate in the Philosophy Department at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. Her publications include: The Virtuous Arguer: One Person, Four Roles (TOPOI, 2015) and Arguments for Rhetorical Arguments: A Response to Aikin (together with Christopher Tindale in: Cogency, 4:1,2012).
Mark Tushnet is William Nelson Cromwell professor of law at Harvard Law School. He is the coauthor of four casebooks, including the most widely used casebook on constitutional law; has written numerous books, including a two-volume work on the life of Justice Thurgood Marshall and, most recently, A dvanced Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law, In the Balance: The Roberts Court and the Future of Constitutional Law, Why the Constitution Matters, and Weak Courts, Strong Rights: Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Perspective; and has edited several others. He was president of the Association of American Law Schools in 2003. In 2002 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Wil J. Waluchow is a professor of philosophy and Senator William McMaster chair in constitutional studies at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. His publications include: Inclusive Legal Positivism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994) and A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review: The Living Tree (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Christopher F. Zurn is professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Along with journal articles, he has authored Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (Cambridge UP, 2007) and A xel Honneth: A Critical Theory of the Social (Polity, 2015) and coedited New Waves in Political Philosophy with Boudewijn de Bruin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives with Hans- Christoph Schmidt am Busch (Roman & Littlefield, 2009).