Law and the New Developmental State: The Brazilian Experience in Latin American Context.

Helena Alviar García, David Trubek, Diogo Coutinho

This book explores the emergence of a new developmental state in Latin America and its significance for law and development theory. In Brazil since 2000, emerging forms of state activism, including a new industrial policy and a robust social policy, differ from both classic developmental state and ...

The Legal Architecture of Populism: Exploring Antagonists in Venezuela and Colombia

Helena Alviar García, Gerald L. Neuman
Cambridge University Press

This chapter examines populism in Latin America as a method of exercising power, rather than a specific set of substantive provisions. It explores the commonalities between left-populism and right-populism as illustrated by two ideologically opposing figures, Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Álvaro ...

The Distributive Politics of Impunity and Anti-Impunity: Lesssons from Four Decades of Colombian Peace Negotiations

Helena Alviar García, Karen Engle
Cambridge University Press

Commentary, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey

Macarena Sáez

The Court and the Women: Structural Litigation and Grassroots Organizing for Internally Displaced People’s Rights in Colombia

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
2016 | Cambridge University Press

Reproductive Rights Litigation: From Recognition to Transformation

Luisa Cabal, Suzannah Phillips
2017 | Cambridge University Press

Between constitutional jurisdiction and women¿s rights organizations: women, war and the space of justice in Colombia

Carolina Vergel Tovar
2012

On April 14, 2008, the Colombian Constitutional Court produced a decision that seems amazing given the local context: Auto [Statement] 092/2008 (Statement) for the protection of internally displaced women (IDW). After 248 pages, the Constitutional Court declared that the disproportional effect of ...

An outsider's comment on Eve Darian-Smith's Laws and Societies in Global Contexts: Reviews on Eve Darian-Smith, Laws and Societies in Global Contexts: Contemporary Approaches (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)

Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Sierra

Mexico. Mexico’s Supreme Court and International Law: Caught Between parochialism and cosmopolitanism

Francisca Pou Giménez, Alejandro Rodiles
2019 | Cambridge University Press

México

Francisca Pou Giménez
2019 | Cambridge University Press

It is a settled rule of international law that a State may not rely on the provisions of its 'internal law' as justification for failing to comply with international obligations. However, the judiciaries of most countries, including those with a high record of compliance with international norms, ...

Changing the Channel: Broadcasting Deliberations in the Mexican Supreme Court

Francisca Pou Giménez
2017 | Cambridge University Press

A key intermediary between courts and the public are the journalists who monitor the actions of justices and report their decisions, pronouncements, and proclivities. Justices and Journalists: The Global Perspective is the first volume of its kind - a comparative analysis of the relationship between ...

Book Review: Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law By Brian Z. Tamanaha. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 268pp.

María Carolina Olarte Olarte
2008

Commentary on DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services

Macarena Sáez

This book provides new, feminist perspectives on famous family law cases that span generations. The chapters take court decisions and rewrite them with feminist ideas in mind. Each rewritten opinion is penned by a leading scholar who relied only on materials available at the time of the original ...