Ribeiro, Gonçalo de Almeida2024-06-122024-06-122024http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/45481This is a short essay written for a collection of papers paying tribute to the work of Harvard Law School’s legal theorist Duncan Kennedy. It is a first-person or introspective interpretation of the double experience of freedom and constraint of a constitutional judge working on the relevant materials to craft a particular legal object – in this case, a defensible conception of constitutional democracy −, in the vein of Kennedy’s critical phenomenology of adjudication.engworking paper