BRICS as Constitutional Inhomogeneous Dynamics

The paper aims to deepen the study of the dynamics of the BRICS as a particular practice of interstate relations that produces legal flows and communication vectors that are different from those experienced in the supranational integrations and in the regional processes; but, the BRICS does not create standardization, harmonization and unification of the law of the member States. For this reason, the article begins with an analysis of contemporary theories in relation to the three main themes specified in the premise to this study: - The differences between supranational and regional processes; - The differences between legal harmonization, standardization and unification; - The differences between the legal flows, from which hypothesis of legal transplants or Policy Transfer may result. On these basis, we will observe how the BRICS functions inside a completely different and original logic if compared with supra-nationality and regionalism.