Giuffré, C. Ignacio2023-07-192023-07-192022Guiffré CI. Deliberative constitutionalism ‘without shortcuts’: on the deliberative potential of Cristina Lafont’s judicial review theory. Global Constitutionalism. 2022;12(2):215-33. DOI: 10.1017/S20453817220002112045-3817http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57619Deliberative constitutionalism is one of the most important developments of recent decades in constitutional theory and practice. It is in this context that Cristina Lafont’s Democracy Without Shortcuts was published. Lafont’s theory provides an opportunity to advance the research agenda on deliberative constitutionalism since she offers a deliberative democratic reinterpretation of judicial review. According to this compelling and powerful idea, citizens can challenge any laws in constitutional courts and thus trigger democratic deliberation about rights. With this issue in mind, this article offers a general approach to deliberative constitutionalism, describes Lafont’s reinterpretation of judicial review, and makes explicit five tensions in this reinterpretation of judicial review vis-à-vis deliberative constitutionalism: (1) the default authority in the interim; (2) the procedural type of constitutional amendment; (3) the scope of judicial review; (4) the irrelevance of constitutional amendments; and (5) the scope of constituent power.application/pdfeng© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S2045381722000211constitutional democracydeliberative constitutionalismdeliberative democracyjudicial dialoguejudicial reviewinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess