{"id":3382,"date":"2021-01-05T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisbonpubliclaw.pt\/?post_type=publicacoes&p=3382"},"modified":"2023-09-22T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:42:54","slug":"from-constitutional-discretion-to-the-positivist-weight-formula","status":"publish","type":"publicacoes","link":"https:\/\/lisbonpubliclaw.pt\/en\/publicacoes\/from-constitutional-discretion-to-the-positivist-weight-formula\/","title":{"rendered":"From constitutional discretion to the positivist weight formula"},"content":{"rendered":"

A correct understanding of balancing discretion shows how proportionality works as an internal limit of discretion and how suitability, necessity and proportionality in the narrow sense constrain the choices to be made by a legislative normative authority. On the other hand, an accurate contraposition between the laws of balancing (the content of proportionality in the narrow sense) and Alexy\u2019s Weight Formula leads to the conclusion that this equation does not express (as it should) the role those laws have in constraining the range of choice presented by \u201cprima facie discretion\u201d. Coming from the problems therein detected, a new formula is presented; a formula that fully matches the substantive and the epistemic laws and that, to satisfy its function of internal justification of a balancing decision, only entails the variables those laws support.<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"imagem-da-publicacao":"https:\/\/lisbonpubliclaw.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Chapter_From-Constitutional-Discretion.png","areas-de-investigacao":"Teoria do Direito","investigador-responsavel":[],"editor-externo":"Jan-R. Sieckmann","editor":[],"autores-externos":"David Duarte","referencia-biografica":"Duarte D. (2021) From Constitutional Discretion to the Positivist Weight Formula. In: Sieckmann JR. (eds) Proportionality, Balancing, and Rights: Robert Alexy's Theory of Constitutional Rights. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 136. Springer, Cham.","projeto-a-que-pertence":"Lisbon Legal Theory","selecionar_o_projeto_a_que_pertence":[],"titulo-do-livro-revista":"Proportionality, Balancing, and Rights: Robert Alexy's Theory of Constitutional Rights","ano":"2021","isbn":"978-3-030-77320-5","editora":"Springer","link-para-download":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-030-77321-2"},"cluster":[34],"categoria-da-publicacao":[24],"grupo-de-investigacao":[13],"class_list":["post-3382","publicacoes","type-publicacoes","status-publish","hentry","cluster-lisbon-legal-theory","categoria-da-publicacao-capitulo-de-livro","grupo-de-investigacao-teoria-e-filosofia-do-direito"],"yoast_head":"\nFrom constitutional discretion to the positivist weight formula - Lisbon Public Law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A correct understanding of balancing discretion shows how proportionality works as an internal limit of discretion and how suitability, necessity and proportionality in the narrow sense constrain the choices to be made by a legislative normative authority. 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