Farinacci-Fernós, Jorge M.

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Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

Links: Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

723 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-2201
jorgefar@buffalo.edu

Biography Publications

Books

PUERTO RICO’S CONSTITUTIONAL PARADOX: COLONIAL SUBORDINATION, DEMOCRATIC TENSION AND PROMISE OF PROGRESSIVE TRANSFORMATION (Hart Publishing, 2023)

LA CARTA DE DERECHOS (THE BILL OF RIGHTS) (Editorial de la Universidad Interamericana, 2021) (in Spanish)

HERMENÉUTICA PUERTORRIQUEÑA: CÁNONES DE INTERPRETACIÓN JURÍDICA (Puerto Rican Hermeneutics: Canons of Legal Interpretation) (Inter Juris, 2020) (in Spanish)

Articles

Economic Policy in Latin American Constitutions, 31 TRANSNATIONAL LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS (2022)

The Limitless Nature of the Constituent Power and its Relation to Constitutionalism, 37 CONNECTICUT JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 116 (2022)

The ‘New’ Insular Cases and the Territorial Clause: From Temporary Incorporation to Permanent Unincorporation, 34 CENTRO JOURNAL 37 (2022)

Writing a Modern Constitution: Democratic Process and Substantive Content, 17 INTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES JOURNAL 199 (2022)

Jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo de los Estados Unidos (2019-2020) (The U.S. Supreme Court Term (2019-2020)), 55 INTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO LAW REVIEW 439 (2021) (in Spanish)

The ‘New Originalism’ and Statutory Interpretation, 55 INTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO LAW REVIEW 691 (2021)

The Constitution is Dead, Long Live the Constitution! The Creation, Endurance and Modification of Modern Revolutionary Constitutions, 25 BARRY LAW REVIEW 35 (2020)

Constitutional Courts as Majoritarian Instruments, 14 VIENNA JOURNAL ON INTERNATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 379 (2020)

Jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo de los Estados Unidos (2018-2019) (The U.S. Supreme Court Term (2018-2019)), 54 INTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO LAW REVIEW 237 (2020) (in Spanish)

La Veda Electoral (The Electoral Ban), 54 INTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO LAW REVIEW 27 (2020) (in Spanish)

Original Explication: A Democratic Model for the Interpretation of Modern State Constitutions, 42 WESTERN NEW ENGLAND LAW REVIEW 1 (2020)

A Survey of Comparative Methodologies: The Constant Presence and Silent Rise of Intent and History in Constitutional Adjudication, 54 INTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO LAW REVIEW 443 (2020)

Jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo de los Estados Unidos (2017-2018) (The U.S. Supreme Court Term (2017-2018)), 53 INTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO LAW REVIEW 65 (2019) (in Spanish)

Los Usos de la Doctrina ‘De Minimis’ en Puerto Rico (Uses for the ‘De Minimis’ Doctrine in Puerto Rico), 53 INTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO LAW REVIEW 393 (2019) (in Spanish)

South Africa’s Forward-Looking Constitutional Revolution and the Role of Courts in Achieving Substantive Constitutional Goals, 53 INTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO LAW REVIEW 531 (2019)

Chapters

When History Requires the Use of History in Constitutional Adjudication, in COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY, Vol. 2: Uses of History in Constitutional Adjudication 47 (Brill, forthcoming 2023)

El Sistema Constitucional Estadounidense en Tiempos de COVID-19 (The U.S. Constitutional System in Times of COVID-19), in EL DERECHO CONSTITUCIONAL ANTE EL COVID: LAS DIFERENTES RESPUESTAS EN EL ÁMBITO COMPARADO (CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND COVID-19: DIFFERENT RESPONSES IN A COMPARATIVE SETTING 157) (Wolters Kluwer, 2020) (in Spanish)