A MUDANÇA DE JURISPRUDÊNCIA NO (E PELO) SUPREMO TRIBUNAL FEDERAL DESDE 2008: a necessidade de estabilização das decisões judiciais a partir da segurança jurídica e do direito como integridade

Abstract

This work aims to study the compatibility of the principle of legal certainty and confidence in the actions of the state with the change of law in the Supreme Court since 2008. Examines hermeneutics, interpretation and legal constitutional control, with emphasis on social change and its impact on constitutional practice carried out by the Supreme Court. Exposes and defends the use of Philosophical Hermeneutics. Deals with the relationship between constitutional interpretation and change, emphasizing the need to recognize the constitutional changes by evolving case law. Explains the current syncretism in control of constitutionality in Brazil and critically shows the institute of modulating the effects of the decisions of the Supreme Court. Analyzes the principle of legal certainty and the confidence of citizens in government actions as a limit to jurisprudential change based in the doctrine of Ronald Dworkin. On this aspect, seeks to demonstrate the advantage of using a consistent doctrine in Brazil of judicial precedents, especially if related to law as integrity in Ronald Dworkin s optical. Reflects on the relationship between change in case law, legal security and development, seeking to identify the theory of Dworkin's integrity as a possibility of ensuring legal certainty through the stability of judicial decisions. Shows that the change of law (between the analyzed period) can serve as a prerequisite for modulating the effects of the decisions of the Supreme Court, from two different aspects. Highlights aspects of changing jurisprudence of the Supreme Court as a standard for modulating the effects of the decision from the trial court itself. Finally, it describes and examines critically the current understanding of the Supreme Court regarding the change of the sedimented others Courts jurisprudence. It concludes with the need for adoption in Brazil of the theory of law with integrity and that the judges of the Supreme Court should make precedents like writing a novel in chapters, or in other words, they must look to the future without forgetting the past; changing position when the case avidly changes in society, but always building rational, articulated in an integrated manner and preserving legal certainty, stability and prediction of judgments or at least it s essentials fundamentals.