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This Essay is a critical reflection on the impact of the digital revolution and the internet on three topics that shape the contemporary world: democracy, social media, and freedom of expression. Part I establishes historical and conceptual assumptions about constitutional democracy and discusses the role of digital platforms in the current moment of democratic recession. Part II discusses how, while social media platforms have revolutionized interpersonal and social communication and democratized access to knowledge and information, they also have led to an exponential spread of mis- and disinformation, hate speech, and conspiracy theories. Part III proposes a framework that balances regulation of digital platforms with the countervailing fundamental right to freedom of expression, a right that is essential for human dignity, the search for the possible truth, and democracy. Part IV highlights the role of society and the importance of media education in the creation of a free, but positive and constructive, environment on the internet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article examine the roles of constitutional courts in contemporary democracies and aims to demonstrate that such courts perform, in addition to the countermajoritarian role and analyzes the phenomena of the judicialization of politics and judicial activism.

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Brazilian constitutional law was the subject of intense debate in 2016. Amid a political and economic crisis, the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) was called upon to intervene in several core political, economic, and social controversies. Taking the position as arbiter of national disputes, it was nonetheless thrust into the heart of the crisis. This report examines the developments in Brazilian Constitutional Law by focusing on the main controversies and major cases decided by the STF in 2016, such as the impeachment trial of President Dilma Rousseff, the enforcement of criminal sentences, the unconstitutionality of the incidence of the crime of abortion, health rights litigation, among others. It also looks into some of the STF's longstanding flaws, such as its justices' unbalanced powers and inability to deliver an "opinion of the Court." As a court that has progressively gained strength and decided on matters of substantial political impact, moral disagreement, and social rights, for instance, it concludes that the comparative constitutional law field should pay more attention to the developments of the Brazilian Supreme Court. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper deals with the importance that tax law had, has and will continue to have for the Brazilian Supreme Court, both from a quantitative and qualitative perspective. However, the core idea is that it is time to harmonize the treatment of tax law cases with the Court's numerical judgment capacity, in order to prioritize quality rather than quantity. The thesis is that is the only way to deliver expeditious trial and legal certainty to tax judicial claims, to help to reverse numerical crisis of general repercussion of constitutional issues and to open space in the future agenda of the Court's for other equally important constitutional matters. To this purpose, the first part of the paper highlights the relationship between tax law and constitutional law in the brazilian judicial debate, focusing on the importance that the tax cases discussions had and still have for the enhancement of the judicial review instruments used by the Supreme Court after the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988. The second part provides a diagnosis of the impressive quantitative importance that this matter has taken nowadays, especially by emphasizing the excessive number of appeals with general repercussion of constitutional issues recognized by the Court waiting for a trial. Finally, taking some cases as examples, the last part of the paper proposes some standards that can be used by the Court in the selection of general repercussion of constitutional issues cases from now on, in order to promote a more realistic and therefore minimalist version of the Court's future agenda in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]