Entre peanut butter et pé-de-moleque : incursions comparatives dans les modalités de décision à la majorité de la Cour suprême des États-Unis et du Tribunal fédéral suprême du Brésil

Abstract

Starting with a contrastive comparison between the formation of collegial decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF), based on the majority principle, this paper puts into perspective the assertion, common in the Brazilian legal field, that the STF was forged in the image of the North American Supreme Court, thus bringing the two systems closer together.

Keywords

• disputatio mindset
• discursive formations
• consensus decision-making
• United States Supreme Court
• Brazilian Supreme Court
• United States