| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 347 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Working in new political spaces : the checkered history of Latin American judicialization / Sandra Botero, Daniel Brinks and Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos -- Critical disconnects : progressive jurisprudence and tenacious impunity in Mexico / Janice Gallagher and Jorge Contesse -- When winning in the courts is not enough : abortion and the limits of legal mobilization without grassroots involvement in Peru / Camila Gianella -- Forms of countermovement and counter-reform in Latin America : judicial backlash or resources and political and legal opportunities? / Alba Ruibal -- Backlash against state strengthening reforms : the rise and fall of the CICIG in Guatemala / Rachel E. Bowen -- Backlash against corporate accountability for grave human rights violations in Colombia / Laura Bernal-Bermúdez -- Courting judicial legitimacy : an experimental study of the Colombian Constitutional Court / Sofía Forero-Alba and Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Raga -- Family ties and nepotism in the Mexican Federal Judiciary / Julio Ríos-Figueroa -- Judicial corruption : The Constitutional Court of Ecuador in comparative perspective / Santiago Basabe-Serrano -- Kickbacks, crackdown, and backlash : legal accountability in the Lava Jato Investigation / Luciano Da Ros and Matthew M. Taylor -- Turning corruption trials into political tools in the name of transparency : the Lava Jato Case / Mariana Mota Prado & Marta Rodriguez Machado -- Fighting corruption, dismantling democracy : antagonism, communication, and the political use of Lava Jato in Brazil / João Guilherme Bastos dos Santos & Esther Solano Gallego -- Prosecutorial agency, backlash and resistance in the Peruvian Chapter of Lava Jato / Viviana Baraybar and Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos |
| Summary |
"This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to take stock of the role that law and courts have played and are playing today in Latin American politics. Beginning in the 1980s, Latin American courts, especially supreme and constitutional courts, left behind decades of subservience and irrelevance to become crucial political actors across the region. In the intervening decades, the law and legal institutions gained prominence as tools for social contestation and change. Like never before, judges entered the political maelstrom, serving as arbiters between the branches of government in heated debates over policy and the reach of presidential or legislative prerogatives. Working with prosecutors, courts also investigated corruption - not only, as in the past, the misdeeds of prior administrations but also those of people still in power. In the process, politicians began to realize that laws and constitutions perhaps meant mostly as window dressing were becoming more costly, as courts might actually hold them to the standards they were creating. Motivated by these developments, individuals and social movements turned the courts into battlegrounds for the realization and expansion of civil, political, cultural, and socio-economic rights"-- Provided by the publisher |
| Notes |
"This book originated at a conference we organized in October 2019 at the Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia"--ECIP Acknowledgments |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 18, 2022) |
| Subject |
Political questions and judicial power -- Latin America -- Congresses
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Political questions and judicial power
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Latin America
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Botero Cabrera, Sandra, editor.
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Brinks, Daniel M., 1961- editor.
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González Ocantos, Ezequiel, 1984- editor
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| LC no. |
2022008779 |
| ISBN |
9781009093859 |
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1009093851 |
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1009103571 |
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9781009103572 |
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