Luso-Brazilian Comparative Constitutional History

Recommended Prerequisites

Introduction to Law, Luso-Brazilian Constitutional Law.

Teaching Methods

Lectures and tutorials combining the presentation of the subject with the progressive opening of the dialogical relationship between the instructor and the students, who will be invited to participate in the classes in an active way, through the debate on specific and delimited themes or the resolution of practical exercises.

Learning Outcomes

This course aims to contribute to the students' legal-public formation, showing how the Portuguese and Brazilian constitutional law was formed and developed, with a special focus on reciprocal influences.

With the completion of this course, students should be able to identify the analogies and differences between Portuguese and Brazilian constitutionalism, and be able to demonstrate the meaning of the constitutional evolution in Portugal and Brazil.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Introduction

1. Constitutional History as an autonomous discipline

2. The meaning of Comparative Constitutional History

Part I - Portuguese and Brazilian constitutionalism(s): antecedents and origins

Part II - Monarchical Constitutionalism

1. Portuguese monarchical constitutionalism

2. Brazilian imperial constitutionalism

Part III - The Advent of Republican Constitutionalism

1. Brazilian republican constitutionalism

2. Portuguese republican constitutionalism

Part IV - Post World War II constitutionalism

1. Constitutionalism in Brazil: from the dictatorship to the Estado Novo

2. Corporatistic constitutionalism in Portugal

Part V - Democratic Constitutionalism

1. The 1976 Portuguese Constitution

2. The 1988 Brazilian Constitution.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Barroso, Luís Roberto, Curso de Direito Constitucional Contemporâneo, 8.ª ed., Saraiva, São Paulo, 2019.

Barroso, Luís Roberto, Vinte Anos da Constituição Brasileira de 1988: A Reconstrução Democrática do Brasil, in: Iustitia, n.º 65 - 20 Anos da Constituição Federal do Brasil, janeiro/junho 2008, pp. 255-267.

Caetano, Marcello, História Breve das Constituições Portuguesas, 2.ª ed., Editorial Verbo, Braga, 1968.

Canotilho, José Joaquim Gomes, Direito Constitucional e Teoria da Constituição, 7.ª ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2003.

Costa, Mário Júlio de Almeida, História do Direito Português, 5.ª ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2012.

Marcos, Rui de Figueiredo/Mathias, Carlos/Noronha, Ibsen, História do Direito Brasileiro, Editora Forense, Rio de Janeiro, 2014.

Mendes, Gilmar Ferreira/Branco, Paulo Gustavo Gonet, Curso de Direito Constitucional, 14.ª ed., Saraiva, São Paulo, 2019.

Miranda, Jorge, Manual de Direito Constitucional, vol. I, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2014.