"Sobre nós mesmos": Menelick de Carvalho Netto e o direito constitucional brasileiro pós-1988

Abstract

This paper aims at presenting the main elements of Menelick de Carvalho Netto’s constitutional-theoretical thinking. To do so, it first explain the historical and intelectual context in which this thinking emerged. Next, it discusses each of that elements and at the same time articulates them in a complex mosaic. Finally, based on the previous arguments, it asserts the thesis that around Menelick de Carvalho Netto was consolidated a school of thought that approaches the constitutional phenomena from a common background, but which remains open, plural and as complex as the constitutional modernity itself.