La libertad en los tiempos de tiranía. Sobre las ideas, la evolución y el paradójico nacimiento legislativo de la motivación judicial.

Abstract

The author analyzes the importance of judicial argumentation and holds that the duty to justify judgments is a key element of the rule of law and the
republican system. The period analyzed ranges from 1810 to 1838, in Argentina.
The article draws a connection between the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment and of Rationalism of the 18th century. Following a thorough analysis of historical
events, the author finishes with the fortunate paradox of Argentine legal history —the first statutorily— imposed requirement to justify judgments, enacted under a tyrannical regime.