CULTURES OF LEGALITY. JUDICIALIZATION AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN LATIN AMERICA

COUSO, JAVIER; HUNEEUS, ALEXANDRA; SIEDER, RACHEL

ISBN 10: 0521767237 / ISBN 13: 9780521767231

Published by CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2010

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Materia: Administración de justicia. Características físicas: El libro está en excelente estado. Ubicación: 217. Obra colectiva que analiza el papel de las culturas jurídicas en la consolidación democrática y el fortalecimiento del Estado de derecho en América Latina. A través de estudios de caso, los autores examinan cómo las prácticas, creencias y valores locales configuran el funcionamiento efectivo (o las limitaciones) de las instituciones legales. Texto esencial para estudiosos del derecho comparado, la sociología jurídica y los procesos de democratización en contextos latinoamericanos.

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• Title: CULTURES OF LEGALITY. JUDICIALIZATION AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN LATIN AMERICA
• Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521767237
• ISBN 13: 9780521767231
• Binding: Cartoné (Tapa dura)
• Condition: Muy Bien
• Dust Jacket Condition: Sin cubierta
• Book Type: LIBRO
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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Javier A. Couso is a Professor of Law at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile. In 2006–7, Couso was the Tinker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His work focuses on the study of Chilean and Latin American constitutional law and processes of judicialization of politics in the region. He has published extensively on such matters, in journals such as Democratization; Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (VRÜ) (Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America); Griffith Law Review; and the Revista de Ciencia Política. He has also contributed chapters in a number of edited volumes.

Alexandra Huneeus is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is also a faculty member of the Legal Studies Program. Huneeus has been a postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University; a Visiting Scholar at Universidad Diego Portales, Chile; and a Fellow of the International Human Rights Clinic at the Berkeley Law School. Her research focuses on judicial politics and human rights in Latin America.

Rachel Sieder is research professor at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Mexico City. She is also an associate researcher at the Chr.Michelsen Institute, University of Bergen, Norway. She was a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, where she remains a research Fellow. She has published widely on indigenous rights, human rights, and socio-legal studies, with a particular geographical focus on Guatemala.