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Cultures of legality : judicialization and political activism in Latin America /

"This volume explores the changing legal ideas and practices that accompany, cause, and are a consequence of the judicialization of politics in Latin America"--Provided by publisher

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Couso, Javier, 1964-, Huneeus, Alexandra, 1967-, Sieder, Rachel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:Cambridge studies in law and society.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cultures of legality : judicialization and political activism in contemporary Latin America / Alexandra Huneeus, Javier Couso, and Rachel Sieder
  • Legal language and social change during Colombia's economic crisis / Pablo Rueda
  • How courts work : culture, institutions, and the Brazilian Supremo tribunal federal / Diana Kapiszewski
  • More power, more rights? The Supreme Court and society in Mexico / Karina Ansolabehere
  • Rejecting the Inter-American Court : judicialization, National Courts, and regional human rights / Alexandra Huneeus
  • The transformation of constitutional discourse and the judicialization of politics in Latin America / Javier Couso
  • Legal cultures in the (un)rule of law : Indigenous rights and juridification in post-conflict Guatemala / Rachel Sieder
  • Political activism and the practice of law in Venezuela / Manuel A. Gomez
  • The Mapuche people's battle for land : litigation as a strategy to defend Indigenous land rights / Anne Skj'vestad
  • Judicialization in Argentina : legal culture, or opportunities and support structures? / Catalina Smulovitz
  • Novel appropriations of the law in the pursuit of political and social change in Latin America / Pilar Domingo.