José Duarte Neto

• Abstract

  The legislative immunities are protective instruments of the Legislative Branch. Even if immediately attributed to Federal Deputies and Senators, imposing them prohibitions and entitling guarantees, they mediately safeguard the Legislative Houses. Indispensable to the democratic order, they make political citizenship effective by ensuring legislative activity independent of excess of auth…

  Legislative immunities and constitutional reform: the constitutionality of the constitutional amendment nº 35/2001, BP.IC

• Abstract

  Currently, situations of conflict between fundamental rights have been frequently observed. Typically, these conflicts cannot be solved in the same way as ordinary normative conflicts, since most of the fundamental rights appear to be legal standards with strong principle content, and, therefore, should receive a different treatment. This research intends to analyze the theories that stud…

  Freedom of religious expression and homophobic hate speech, BP.IC

• Abstract

  The Parliamentary Committees of Inquiry (PCIs) are a very important tool for the Legislative Power to control the acts of the Executive Power, also it has an important meaning, even on the legislating duty. To create a PCI is necessary only the object to be determined, considering it is a matter of public reverberation and; the application to create it need to be signed by 1/3 of the parl…

  Parliamentary Committees of Inquiry (PCIs) at Federal Senate: an empirical analysis of results (2003-2010), BP.IC

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