JUDICIAL COSMOPOLITANISM: A CRITIQUE OF POSNER’S OBJECTIONS TO RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN LEGAL DECISIONS AS SHOULD-SOURCES OF LAW
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This article aims to evaluate Posner's objections to some justices of the U. S. Supreme Court’s stance of judicial cosmopolitanism. This research is theoretical and qualitative. It uses bibliographic content analysis as a methodological procedure and displays a theoretical framework composed of: 1) the distinction between context of discovery and context of justification – Reichenbach; 2) The structured dynamic embedded in the mutual paranoia between an irrational impulse for justice and the need for its translation (re-entry) to legal system’s language game in the context of justification of judicial opinions – Teubner; 3) the distinction between "mustsources", "should-sources" and "may-sources" of law – Peczenik; 4) the concepts of "transconstitutional dialogue" between legal orders belonging to the global legal system – Marcelo Neves – and "engagement model” between domestic law and foreign legal decisions – Vicki Jackson; and 5) the search for balance between constitutional courts' passive and active virtues – Conrado Mendes. The main obtained result was finding that Posner's criticism concerns the qualification of foreign decisions as "should-sources" instead of "may-sources" in the context of justification of U.S. courts' decisions. As a conclusion, this article’s working hypothesis – the inevitable communication between legal orders involved in similar constitutional controversies makes Posner’s objections to the stance of judicial cosmopolitanism unsustainable – was confirmed.
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