nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/257d9af7309105ab DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260212s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/257d9af7309105ab doi eng 342 23 Gualano de Godoy, Miguel Author aut Fixed Terms Are Not the Solution - Why Tenure Reform Misdiagnoses the Crisis of the Brazilian Supreme Court Gualano de Godoy, Miguel Verfassungsblog 2026-02-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The proposal to establish fixed terms for justices of the Brazilian Supreme Court has recently returned to public debate following statements by President Lula presenting tenure reform as an institutional response to the Court’s current difficulties. The idea resurfaces cyclically whenever the Court makes mistakes. Yet the length of justices’ tenure is neither the central empirical nor the normative factor explaining today’s deficits. The possible paths forward depend far more on internal institutional corrections than on constitutional reforms imposed from outside. CC BY-SA 4.0 Brasilien Brazilian Supreme Court Reform fix terms tenure reform (DE-588)4008003-1 gnd Brasilien Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/fixed-terms-are-not-the-solution/ raw object