TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 - The promises of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 and the encounter between human rights and the Supreme Court
Rubens Becak and Jairo Lima
2 - The Brazilian Supreme Court and its Political Protagonism: an Overview of the STF and its Rise to Prominence in Brazilian Politics after 1988
Murilo Gaspardo
3 - Freedom of speech: Ellwanger case
Cristina Godoy Bernardo de Oliveira
4 – Asking “The Woman Question”: Judicial Recognition of the Right to Abortion in Brazil
Melina Girardi Fachin and Estefânia Maria de Queiroz Barboza
5 - Embryonic stem-cells research at the Brazilian Supreme Court: or how to decide not to decide
Lucas de Laurentiis
6 - Affirmative action at the Federal Supreme Court: the difficult promotion of racial equity in Brazil
Maria Paula Bucci Dallari
7 - Gay marriage: the role of the Brazilian Supreme Court in recognizing the right to same-sex civil unions
Fernando de Brito Alves
8 - Criminalization of homophobia – Trial at the Brazilian Supreme Court
Simone Cristine Araújo Lopes
9 - Political Citizenship: Constitutional Commitments and limits in the exercise of Brazilian Party Democracy
Orides Mezzaroba
10 - Corporate campaign donations
João Andrade Neto
11 - Home-schooling and religious education in Brazil
Nina Beatriz Stocco Ranieri
12 - High cost medicines and medical treatments in the Supremo Tribunal Federal (Brazilian Supreme Court)
Fernanda Duarte and Rafael Mário Iório Filho
13 - The presumption of innocence
José Duarte Neto
14 - The unconstitutional state of affairs in Brazil’s prisons
Emerson Ademir Borges de Oliveira
15 - Expanding constitutional dialogues in the judicial review: what are the institutional and behavioral challenges of the Brazilian Supreme Court as a human rights´ guardian?
Flavia Santiago Lima