What do you think?
Rate this book
A Supreme Court Made in Brazil: How the Justice System is Reshaping the Law and Politics in the West’s Second-Largest Democracy
Brazil is the West’s second-largest democracy. And, just like other modern democracies, it has, in the last few years, largely been shaped by its Supreme Court. This book describes how Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court (in Portuguese, Supremo Tribunal Federal or STF) operates and how it became a center of power. The book explains, in general, how Brazil’s Constitution designed the country’s democratic structure by emphasizing the role of the courts. It profiles the current sitting Justices and the cases that, in the last few years, have transformed the face of the country. Among them, of course, is the renowned corruption case, known as “Operation Car Wash.
With this structure, the book intends to serve as reading material for comparative law classes, but also for the general public, interested in learning more about the country’s law and politics. This is the most comprehensive overview of the Brazilian legal system available in English.
“Professor Edilson Vitorelli's A Supreme Court Made in Brazil offers a careful look at the evolution of that nation's Supreme Court and also provides an important work of comparative law. It should be of great value in courses offered in many countries on comparative constitutional law, and also provides a comparative study of judicial institutions and procedure”.
Professor Richard Marcus - Coil Chair in Litigation, UC Hastings College of the Law
“It is this court’s major role in shaping Brazilian law and society to which the present book is devoted. The publication is to be welcomed since the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court is of interest to an international audience, including university students in courses on comparative and constitutional law, due to its outspoken activist role".
Professor C.H. van Rhee - Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Edilson Vitorelli is a Federal Judge at the Federal Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit and professor of law in Brazil. He has a post-doctorate from the Federal University of Bahia, during which he also studied at the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law in Luxembourg. He has a Science Juris Doctor (SJD) degree from the Federal University of Paraná. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School and a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School. He has published eight books and many legal studies, in Portuguese, English and Spanish. In 2019, his book “El Debido Proceso Legal Colectivo” (available in Spanish and Portuguese) received the Mauro Cappelletti Book Prize, awarded by the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL) every four years, to the world’s best book on procedural law.
Before his judgeship appointment, Vitorelli served as a federal prosecutor for 15 years and litigated many important class action lawsuits. In 2021 he was part of the team that negotiated the settlement of the Brumadinho dam disaster, the collapse of an iron-ore tailings dam that killed 272 people. It is, to date, the largest collective settlement in Latin America and the fourth largest worldwide.
With this structure, the book intends to serve as reading material for comparative law classes, but also for the general public, interested in learning more about the country’s law and politics. This is the most comprehensive overview of the Brazilian legal system available in English.
“Professor Edilson Vitorelli's A Supreme Court Made in Brazil offers a careful look at the evolution of that nation's Supreme Court and also provides an important work of comparative law. It should be of great value in courses offered in many countries on comparative constitutional law, and also provides a comparative study of judicial institutions and procedure”.
Professor Richard Marcus - Coil Chair in Litigation, UC Hastings College of the Law
“It is this court’s major role in shaping Brazilian law and society to which the present book is devoted. The publication is to be welcomed since the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court is of interest to an international audience, including university students in courses on comparative and constitutional law, due to its outspoken activist role".
Professor C.H. van Rhee - Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Edilson Vitorelli is a Federal Judge at the Federal Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit and professor of law in Brazil. He has a post-doctorate from the Federal University of Bahia, during which he also studied at the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law in Luxembourg. He has a Science Juris Doctor (SJD) degree from the Federal University of Paraná. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School and a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School. He has published eight books and many legal studies, in Portuguese, English and Spanish. In 2019, his book “El Debido Proceso Legal Colectivo” (available in Spanish and Portuguese) received the Mauro Cappelletti Book Prize, awarded by the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL) every four years, to the world’s best book on procedural law.
Before his judgeship appointment, Vitorelli served as a federal prosecutor for 15 years and litigated many important class action lawsuits. In 2021 he was part of the team that negotiated the settlement of the Brumadinho dam disaster, the collapse of an iron-ore tailings dam that killed 272 people. It is, to date, the largest collective settlement in Latin America and the fourth largest worldwide.
266 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 20, 2022
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
No one has reviewed this book yet.