Johanna Fröhlich's latest book, Constitutional Reasoning in Latin America and the Caribbean (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024) examines the reasoning practice of 15 constitutional courts and supreme courts, including the Caribbean Commonwealth and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Enriched by empirical data, with which it strives to contribute to a constructive and well-informed debate, the volume analyses how Latin American courts justify their decisions. Based on original data and a region-specific methodology, the book provides a systematic analysis utilising more than 600 leading cases. It shows which interpretive methods and concepts are most favoured by Latin American courts, and which courts were the most prolific in their reasoning activities. 

Johanna Fröhlich is a Senior Research Fellow at the Eötvös József Research Centre for Politics and Political Theory at the National University of Public Service. She received her LL.M. from the University of Notre Dame in 2015 and her PhD from the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2017. She was a lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and the University of San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, where she has also directed the Institute of Legal Studies and the Postgraduate Programs for several years. Her research interests include legal and political philosophy, constitutional theory, natural law, legal reasoning, comparative constitutional law, and courts and the law.  

Invited speaker: Johanna Fröhlich (Senior Research Fellow (UPS EJRC RIPG))

Moderator: Dóra Réka Babos (MCC Center for Constitutional Politics)

Venue: MCC Tas vezér utca 3-7 (Szilágyi Erzsébet)

Date: 18 June 2024 15:30-17:00