Proportionality in Constitutional Law

Lucas Catib de Laurentiis is Professor of Public Law and General Theory of the State at the Faculdade de Direito de São Bernardo do Campo (FDSBC) and Researcher at the São Paulo Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV Direito SP). He is a permanent professor in the Graduate Program in Communication at São Paulo State University (Unesp) and an affiliated researcher at the University of Campinas (Unicamp) and at the Research Centre for Justice and Governance (JusGov), School of Law, University of Minho (Portugal). He holds a doctorate and a master's degree in Constitutional Law from the University of São Paulo (USP). During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting researcher at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, funded by CAPES. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg and is currently a CNPq Senior Fellow and principal investigator in projects funded by FAPESP.

1.Introduction.- 2.Methodological issues and work proposal.- 3.Origin and development of proportionality.- 4.Dogmatic reconstruction project.- 5.Conclusions.