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Informationen zum Autor Allan R. Brewer-Carias has been Professor at the Central University of Venezuela since 1963. He also has been Simón Bolívar Professor at the Law Faculty of Cambridge University (1985–6), where he was a Fellow of Trinity College; at the University of Paris II (1990); and at Columbia University, where he has been Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Law (2002–4 and 2006–7). He is a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, where he served as Vice President (1982–2010) and of the Venezuelan National Academy of Political and Social Sciences, where he served as President (1997–9). In Venezuela, he was also President of the Public Administration Commission, Senator for the Federal District, Minister for Decentralization and an elected member of the 1999 National Constituent Assembly. Klappentext Analyzes the role of constitutional courts, conditioned by the principles of progressiveness and of prevalence of human rights. Zusammenfassung This book analyzes the courts' role! conditioned by the principles of progressiveness and of prevalence of human rights! particularly regarding the important rediscovery of the right to equality and non-discrimination. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Constitutional Courts as Positive Legislators in Comparative Law: 1. Judicial review of legislation and the legislator; 2. The role of constitutional courts interfering with the constituent power; 3. Constitutional courts interfering with the legislator regarding existing legislation; 4. Constitutional courts interfering with the legislator regarding legislative omissions; 5. Constitutional courts as legislators on matters of judicial review; Part II. National Reports; Part III. Synthesis Report: Constitutional Courts as Positive Legislators in Comparative Law Preliminary Remarks.
