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Abstract
In this brief essay, I will analyze Carlos Santiago Nino' intuitions (visitant professor at Yale University) about an "unfinished" question in his work that him revised permanently until his last book: the judicial control of constitutionality (judicial review), examining it into the light of the «popular constitutionalism», a trend of thought very critical with the well known approaches on the judicial review, that had special reception in Yale University. In order to take ahead this analysis, in the first part Twill expose, in a very synthetic way, the vision that Nino presented in his last works on the judicial review. Then, in the second part, I will summarize some of the main lines of analyses characteristic of the «popular constitutionalism» for, finally, to explore in the third and last section, possible agreements and disagreements between both perspectives.
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