Constitutional Courts and Deliberative Democracy is an inestimable contribution to explain what a 'forum of principle' or a 'dialogue' between powers entail and to provide a critical account of the ethical virtues, the facilitators, the legal constraints, and the political circumstances of judicial deliberation.
Thomas Bustamante , Modern Law Review
Overall, the monograph provides a welcome ... Read moreinsight into the omissions in wider challenges faced by scholarship concerning good constitutional courts in democracies. Given the diversity in both institutional set ups and legal cultures, future work in this area will require an empirical turn.
Hayley Hooper, Law Quarterly Review
The strength of the book is in its detailed examination of what still largely remains at least from the perspective of deliberative theory a black box: the internal processes of constitutional courts. Mendes is more of a systematizer and presenter of taxonomies than a purveyor of simple answers. His language waxes metaphorical, even sometimes lyrical. By asking the questions he does, Mendes encourages us to probe the roles and possibilities of deliberation on multi-member courts.
Ron Levy, Brazilian Political Science Review
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