Authoritarian constitutionalism, judicial capture or the ambivalence of modern law: The case of the Chilean Constitutional Tribunal

Eduardo Chia

doi:10.35295/osls.iisl.1903

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Eduardo Chia Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0123-4231

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.1903

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Tribunal Constitucional Chileno, constitucionalismo autoritario, judicatura, ratio y voluntas, neoliberalismo autoritario

Resumen

Este artículo explora la tensión entre ratio y voluntas en el derecho moderno. Se sustenta principalmente en un análisis bibliográfico a fin de abordar críticamente dos cuestiones interrelacionadas: (i) la noción de “constitucionalismo autoritario” y (ii) las ambivalencias observadas en la articulación conceptual y la estructuración institucional de la judicatura. Luego, presenta el orden jurídico de Chile como un caso de estudio, examinando cómo algunas prácticas y decisiones de su Tribunal Constitucional, en períodos específicos, expresan la interacción mencionada. Posteriormente, incorpora revisiones de experiencias recientes de “retroceso democrático” en países seleccionados de Europa Central y del Este, para ofrecer una dimensión comparativa más amplia del fenómeno. Los casos expuestos, a pesar de acontecer en contextos económicos e histórico-políticos disimilares, respaldan la presencia de la dualidad antagónica del derecho moderno que oscila entre liberación y represión. El estudio sugiere que ésta aparece como universalmente observable, aunque se manifiesta de manera contingente en los órdenes jurídicos y constitucionales.

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Eduardo Chia, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Eduardo A. Chia, Institute for Criminal Justice and Philosophy of Law, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Email address: eduardo.chia@gmail.com

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