Over the course of the past thirty years, the Brazilian judiciary has been remade. The courts have left behind the timidity of the military authoritarian era, as death and retirements gave rise to new corps of senior judges and a new constitution transformed their basic institutional...

Amidst the current economic crisis in Brazil, it is often forgotten that the structure of the Brazilian economy, and especially the strong role of the state as an economic actor, predates the Workers' Party administrations (2003-present) and has been a fixture of the democratic regime. This...