http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210325-151513-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-virtues-and-limits-of-transformative-constitutionalism/ The Virtues and Limits of Transformative Constitutionalism Burbano Herrera, Clara Prieto, Gustavo eng 2021-03-25 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Constitutional Court Human Rights prison riots systemic failure Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 4 March, the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court published a decision in the aftermath of nation-wide prison riots that had killed at least 79 people. This judgment underlines the key functions of a Court empowered with a transformative mandate in the face of systemic failures in public policy – but also the limits of its power to solve those failures.