nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20191024-193123-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 191024s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20191024-193123-0 doi eng 342 23 Violante, Teresa Author aut Between Legislative Defiance and Legal Security How Portugal’s Constitutional Court Refused to Re-Open the Debate on Surrogacy Violante, Teresa Verfassungsblog 2019-10-24 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In Portugal, a recent decision of the Constitutional Court rejected another legislative attempt to implement a successful system of surrogacy. For the first time in its 26-year history, the Court faced legislative defiance of its previous case law, but asserted its role as the ultimate interpreter of the Constitution with arguments of “legal security” which provided the formal ground to escape the conflict between branches. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Constitutional Law Judicial Review Legislative Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/between-legislative-defiance-and-legal-security/ raw object