Cultures of Legality

Herausgeber: Couso, Javier; Sieder, Rachel; Huneeus, Alexandra

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ideas about law are undergoing dramatic change in Latin America. The consolidation of democracy as the predominant form of government and the proliferation of transnational legal instruments have ushered in an era of new legal conceptions and practices. Law has become a core focus of political movements and policy-making. This volume explores the changing legal ideas and practices that accompany, cause, and are a consequence of the judicialization of politics in Latin America. It is the product of a three-year international research effort, sponsored by the Law and Society Association, the Latin American Studies Association, and the Ford Foundation, that gathered leading and emerging scholars of Latin American courts from across disciplines and across continents.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781107610477
• ISBN-10: 1107610478
• Artikelnr.: 37466664

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Cultures of legality: judicialization and
political activism in contemporary Latin America Alexandra Huneeus, Javier
Couso and Rachel Sieder; Part II. Courts and Judicialization through a
Cultural Lens: 2. Legal language and social change during Colombia's
economic crisis Pablo Rueda; 3. How courts work: culture, institutions, and
the Brazilian supreme tribunal federal Diana Kapiszewski; 4. More power,
more rights? The Supreme Court and society in Mexico Karina Ansolabehere;
5. High courts and the inter-American court: judicialization, human rights
and a tenuous relationship Alexandra Huneeus; Part III. Judicialization
beyond the Courts: 6. The transformation of constitutional discourse and
the judicialization of politics in Latin America Javier Couso; 7. Legal
cultures in the (un)rule of law: indigenous rights and juridification in
post-conflict Guatemala Rachel Sieder; 8. Political activism and the
practice of law in Venezuela Manuel A. Gomez; 9. The Mapuche people's
battle for land: litigation as a strategy to defend indigenous land rights
Anne Skjævestad; 10. Judicialization in Argentina: legal culture, or
opportunities and support structures? Catalina Smulovitz; 11. Novel
appropriations of the law in the pursuit of political and social change in
Latin America Pilar Domingo.