Editorial

Over the last decades, law, courts, and constitutional review have been studied with intensity in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) owing to an inspiring and dynamic environment of constitutional development and theories. Helmke and Ríos-Figueroa ¹¹ Gretchen Helmke/Julio Ríos-Figueroa, Courts in Latin America (2011). have recently claimed that the shift in the courts’ role started to provoke a real transformation both in the characteristics of LAC constitutional and supreme courts, as in the way they exercise their power. Although LAC courts may still be vulnerable to the arbitrary decisions of the executive, the way how the region’s apex courts are in fact exercising constitutional control has essentially become more empowered. This change has affected constitutional reasoning as well, however, it still seems to be ambivalent and uncertain, especially from a rule of law perspective.