Uma década de audiências públicas no Supremo Tribunal Federal (2007-2017)

• Autor(a) principal: Leal, Fernando Angelo Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Herdy, Rachel, Massadas, Júlia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/24249
• topic: Public hearings; Judicial review; Democratic legitimacy; Epistemic justification; Scientific knowledge; Audiências públicas; Jurisdição constitucional; legitimidade democrática; Justificação epistêmica; Conhecimento científico; Direito; Brasil. Supremo Tribunal Federal; Audiências públicas - Brasil

The present article offers an assessment of the last 10 years of public hearings in the Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal. It is argued that, during this period, the institute has been employed in an incoherent and inconsistent manner. The incoherency refers especially to the attempt to attribute the function of democratic legitimacy to the institute of public hearings. This association between public hearings and democracy can be criticized on the basis of normative reasons, with respect to the positive law, and conceptual reasons. On the other hand, the inconsistency refers to the unstandardized operationalization of the institute. This second conclusion will be argued with the help of a set of mostly quantitative analysis.