Argumentación como determinante de las decisiones judiciales: evidencia empírica del control abstracto de constitucionalidad en Ecuador

Legal scholars often analyze argumentation from a formal perspective, mostly applied to judicial decision making. This article presents an alternative approach, as it empirically evaluates the quality of petitioners’ legal argumentation within the context of abstract constitutional review proceeding...

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Main Authors: Castro Montero, José Luis, Proaño Durán, Marco
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: 2018
Subjects:
Legal argumentation
constitutional review
Constitutional Court
Ecuador
Argumentación jurídica
control de constitucionalidad
Corte Constitucional
Online Access:https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6416834
Source:Revista Derecho del Estado, ISSN 0122-9893, Nº. 41, 2018, pags. 37-65
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Argumentación como determinante de las decisiones judiciales: evidencia empírica del control abstracto de constitucionalidad en Ecuador
Summary: Legal scholars often analyze argumentation from a formal perspective, mostly applied to judicial decision making. This article presents an alternative approach, as it empirically evaluates the quality of petitioners’ legal argumentation within the context of abstract constitutional review proceedings. The quality of legal argumentation is herein defined as the ability of the petitioner to (i) identify the challenged norm and the potentially infringed constitutional norm, (ii) present clear and coherent arguments, and (iii) justify its arguments upon legal sources, such as jurisprudential precedents or legal doctrine. Original data on forty lawsuits presented before the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court between 2008 and 2016 is used to test whether legal argumentation determines the outcome of a decision. A novel measure of the overall quality of argumentation and strength of cases brought before the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court by both public and private parties is also developed in the form of an expert survey. The main findings suggest that plaintiffs’ legal argumentation quality does not determine the outcome of the final decision of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court, but rather the type of plaintiff (public or private) does.

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