Courts in Latin America
Title | Courts in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Gretchen Helmke |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2011-01-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1139497162 |
To what extent do courts in Latin America protect individual rights and limit governments? This volume answers these fundamental questions by bringing together today's leading scholars of judicial politics. Drawing on examples from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica and Bolivia, the authors demonstrate that there is widespread variation in the performance of Latin America's constitutional courts. In accounting for this variation, the contributors push forward ongoing debates about what motivates judges; whether institutions, partisan politics and public support shape inter-branch relations; and the importance of judicial attitudes and legal culture. The authors deploy a range of methods, including qualitative case studies, paired country comparisons, statistical analysis and game theory.
The DNA of Constitutional Justice in Latin America
Title | The DNA of Constitutional Justice in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel M. Brinks |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2018-04-19 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107178363 |
Analyzes the political roots of the systems of constitutional justice in Latin America, tracing their development over the last 40 years.
The Latin American Casebook
Title | The Latin American Casebook PDF eBook |
Author | Juan F. Gonzalez-Bertomeu |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2016-04-20 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1317026209 |
Traditionally relegated because of political pressure and public expectations, courts in Latin America are increasingly asserting a stronger role in public and political discussions. This casebook takes account of this phenomenon, by offering a rigorous and up-to-date discussion of constitutional adjudication in Latin America in recent decades. Bringing to the forefront the development of constitutional law by Latin American courts in various subject matters, the volume aims to highlight a host of creative arguments and solutions that judges in the region have offered. The authors review and discuss innovative case law in light of the countries’ social, political and legal context. Each chapter is devoted to a discussion of a particular area of judicial review, from freedom of expression to social and economic rights, from the internalization of human rights law to judicial checks on the economy, from gender and reproductive rights to transitional justice. The book thus provides a very useful tool to scholars, students and litigants alike.
International Courts in Latin America and the Caribbean
Title | International Courts in Latin America and the Caribbean PDF eBook |
Author | Salvatore Caserta |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2020-10-29 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0198867999 |
This book explores the foundations and evolution of the four Latin American and Caribbean regional economic courts. It argues that local socio-political factors are often the decisive factor in influencing the direction of these Courts, rather than the formally delegated functions they were assigned when established.
Judicial reform in Latin America
Title | Judicial reform in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Dakolias |
Publisher | Hoover Press |
Pages | 40 |
Release | |
Genre | Courts |
ISBN | 9780817957032 |
An essay on the need for a well functioning judiciary system in Latin America.
Beyond High Courts
Title | Beyond High Courts PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew C. Ingram |
Publisher | University of Notre Dame Pess |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2019-05-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0268102848 |
Beyond High Courts: The Justice Complex in Latin America is a much-needed volume that will make a significant contribution to the growing fields of comparative law and politics and Latin American legal institutions. The book moves these research agendas beyond the study of high courts by offering theoretically and conceptually rich empirical analyses of a set of critical supranational, national, and subnational justice sector institutions that are generally neglected in the literature. The chapters examine the region’s large federal systems (Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico), courts in Chile and Venezuela, and the main supranational tribunal in the region, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Aimed at students of comparative legal institutions while simultaneously offering lessons for practitioners charged with designing such institutions, the volume advances our understanding of the design of justice institutions, how their form and function change over time, what causes those changes, and what consequences they have. The volume also pays close attention to how justice institutions function as a system, exploring institutional interactions across branches and among levels of government (subnational, national, supranational) and analyzing how they help to shape, and are shaped by, politics and law. Incorporating the institutions examined in the volume into the literature on comparative legal institutions deepens our understanding of justice systems and how their component institutions can both bolster and compromise democracy and the rule of law. Contributors: Matthew C. Ingram, Diana Kapiszewski, Azul A. Aguiar-Aguilar, Ernani Carvalho, Natália Leitão, Catalina Smulovitz, John Seth Alexander, Robert Nyenhuis, Sídia Maria Porto Lima, José Mário Wanderley Gomes Neto, Danilo Pacheco Fernandes, Louis Dantas de Andrade, Mary L. Volcansek, and Martin Shapiro.
Judicial Institutions in Nineteenth-century Latin America
Title | Judicial Institutions in Nineteenth-century Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Eduardo A. Zimmermann |
Publisher | University of London Press |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
The relevance of lawyers and jurists in the process of state-building in nineteenth-century Latin America has been widely acknowledged. This collection of essays assembles a series of studies dealing with the interaction between the legal world and the wider political, economic, social and cultural processes in which the transition from colonial status to independent nationhood took place. Rather than viewing this transition as a radical transformation of judicial institutions and practices, emphasis has been put upon the continuities between those two phases. The chapters range from general overviews of both colonial and republican Spanish America to more detailed case studies of Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. contributors include: Linda Arnold, Virginia Tech; Osvaldo Barreneche, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina; Charles R. Cutter, Purdue University; Thomas H. Holloway, Cornell University; Victor M. Uribe, Florida International University.