Supremo interesse: protagonismo político-regulatório e a evolução institucional do processo de seleção dos ministros do STF

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Jorge, Álvaro Amaral de França Couto Palma de
• Orientador(a): Falcão Neto, Joaquim de Arruda
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Regulação; Democratização; Freios e contrapesos; Moldura institucional; Ministros; Supremo Tribunal Federal; Constituição; Comissão de Constituição; Comissão de constituição, justiça e cidadania do Senado Federal; Políticas públicas
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Justices; Supreme Court; Constitution. Federal Senate; Confirmation hearings; Federal Senate Constitution; Justice and civic rights commission; Selection; Institutional framework; Checks and balances; Democratization; Regulation; Public policy; Federal Senate
• Link de acesso: https://hdl.handle.net/10438/16202

Based on the fact that higher courts are assuming a greater role in Brazil today, as is the global trend in complex contemporary societies, in the shaping of public policy and regulation, the study aims to map the evolution – and progressive democratization – of the checks and balances structure established in the 1988 Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil, i.e., the selection process of justice for Federal Supreme Court, Brazil’s apex constitutional court. The text analyses the institutional/constitutional framework of the selection process for new justices, and exemplify changes in the profile of political players, in the network of competences of institutions involved in the process and in the social, political, economic and cultural context that pushed through the practical transformation of the institutional selection model without altering, however, the format originally established in the 19th Century. By mapping the origin and evolution of the constitutional formula for collaboration between the Executive and Legislative branches in choosing the members of the Judiciary’s highest court, the study finds the origin of the Brazilian model in the US experience, describing the latter and making parallels between the two. Taking the 1988 Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil as a milestone, the work demonstrates the even greater mobilization of political and social players concerning the selection process, especially in relation to the hearings and confirmation of appointments for the Federal Supreme Court by the Federal Senate Constitution, Justice and Civic Rights Commission (CCJ). Finally, the studies analyzes actual CCJ hearing sessions and some of the main discussions therein so as to draw lessons that may guide the debate on the evolution of the selection process of justices to the Federal Supreme Court , including as an early control tool used by those involved in the creation of future public policy through Federal Supreme Court decisions.