'… a valuable resource about the use of the proportionality doctrine in Latin America. … [and a] highly welcome addition to the research on proportionality. … providing a more description of the proportionality practice, it includes many excellent chapters that are worth reading.' Niels Petersen, Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Heidelberg Journal of International Law
Part I. Proportionality and Processes of constitutionalization: 1. The Standard Reasonableness Test and Proportionality in Argentina: a matter of interactions Laura Clérico and Federico de Fazio; 2. Proportionality in the case law of the constitutional court of Ecuador Daniela Salazar Marín and Ramiro Ávila Santamaría; 3. Proportionality and human rights in Mexico Arturo Bárcena Zubieta; 4. Proportionality and the construction of democracy: notes from the Peruvian jurisprudence Pedro Grández Castro; 5. Proportionality in the case law of the Chilean constitutional court Verónica Undurraga and Pascual Cortés; Part II. Proportionality in Social Rights and Equality-based Adjudication: 6. Socio-economic rights in the Colombian constitutional jurisprudence: proportionality and the prohibition of retrogressive measures Magdalena Correa Heano and Alejandra Osorio Alvis; 7. Progressive realization, non-retrogression, and maximum of available resources. Agreements and disagreements between the Inter-American court and the United Nations ESCR committee Julieta Rossi; 8. Proportionality in the adjudication of equality and non-discrimination cases in the Inter-American system Silvia Serrano; 9. Transformation and its limits: proportionality, courts, and social rights in Brazil Virgilio Afonso da Silva and Paula Gorzoni; Part III. Proportionality, Between Transformation and the Status Quo: 10. Between exception and transition: proportionality and necessity in the Colombian quest for peace Antonio Barreto Rozo and Jorge González-Jácome; 11. Proportionality and state Ius Puniendi, Mary Beloff; 12. Distributional analysis as an alternative to proportionality analysis in judicial decision-making Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Sierra; 13. Proportionality, social justice, and democracy Martín Aldao; 14. Unilateralism, dialogue, and false necessity: the distribution of the burden of proof in proportionality analysis Francisca Pou-Giménez; Epilogue. The elephant in the room Jamal Greene.