Article
Spanish
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Abstract
The public hearings that have been established in the last decade by the Latin American high courts have been identified as one of the most novel points in constitutional practices opening the promise of a closer link between judicial institutions and citizens. In this respect, openness to public participation is the dimension that has taken the eyes of the democratically oriented constitutional theory. This work raises questions about the terms of public participation in the Argentinian Supreme Court, about the type of tensions that arise when and with actors outside of the courtesan space, new forms of expression and new narratives about the cases. To this end, we stand at a special hearing held in November 2016, in an emblematic case of what was called “the new Court” at the time, set up after the 2001 crisis. In the article we give a look at what is at stake at the hearings and in this hearing in particular, based on ethnographic records, interviews, field observations, analysis of the file and secondary sources, in the light of theoretical approaches to democratic constitutionalism.