Constitutional judges (guarantee of the Constitution and responsibility)

My aim in this paper is to propose a reflection on the position and the importance that the constitutional judge has in the legal systems of contemporary constitutionalism. The figure of the judge responsible of protecting the Constitution is a key institution, without which we cannot understand the laws of constitutional democracies, their current lines of development, and the guarantee of rights and freedoms that constitute the normative core of these systems. Moreover, the reflection on the exercise of the powers of the judge, its scope and its justification is an important part of contemporary legal discussion, still relevant, albeit not exclusively - in the field of legal philosophy. The object of attention of my reflection is the judge who has the power of judicial review, in a scheme of defense of the Constitution, regardless the specific ways of this defense.

Trabalho, gênero e desemprego em Lagoa do Carro.

El tema del ensayo esta insertado en un tipo de estrategia de supervivencia de la producción local frente a las transformaciones de los sistemas tradicionales de producción. Se refiere a cooperativas de mujeres en la zona de Mata de Pernambuco, en el Pueblo de Lagoa do Carro. Dichas cooperativas viene desarrollando un trabajo de producción de alfombras artesanales que son hechas, en general, en el propio hogar de las mujeres y que son comercializadas en una pequeña tienda localizada al margen de la carretera PE-90.