Portuguese Abstract: Desde a falência do Banco Lehman Brothers em 2008, a política econômica de austeridade em vários países tem causado descontentamento e protestos sociais. Do ponto de vista jurídico, a austeridade econômica resulta em limitações na fruição de direitos subjetivos,...

In Brazilian tax law there are perceptible tensions between what can be considered “legal” and what must be treated as “economic”. Some older views remain against the incorporation of economic considerations into legal discourse. More recently legal scholars have suggested that legal...

This article offers a description of recent arguments about the relations between the law and economic development in Brazil which have been conceived as congenial to a new state activism: the Public Capital Management (PCM) approach and the Legal Analysis of Economic Policy LAEP) approach....

The paper describes the evolution of legal ideas underlying authoritative discourse used as grounds for changes in economic policy in Brazil. It examines the role of legal ideas in the shaping of policy since the rise of enlarged administrative power in the nineteenth century to the emergence of...