La recursividad del derecho globalizado en la lucha por una política de patentes farmacéuticas argentina

Paola Bergallo, Agustina Ramón Michel
| Universidad de los Andes

The Recursivity of Global Lawmaking in the Struggle for an Argentine Policy on Pharmaceutical Patents

Paola Bergallo, Agustina Ramón Michel

Constitutional Culture and Democracy in México: A Critical View of the 100-Year-Old Mexican Constitution

Ana Micaela Alterio, Roberto Niembro Ortega
2018 | Oxford University Press

"Women are not in the Best Position to Make These Decisions by Themselves": Gender Stereotypes in the Uruguayan Abortion Law

Lucía Berro Pizzarossa
2019

Efforts to protect women’s rights can cast dark shadows. Dangerous and often unnoticed stereotypes can motivate and infiltrate legal reforms. Recent changes to the law on abortion in Uruguay have been held out as a best practice model in South America. Recognising the power of the law to shape our understandings of how people are and should be, this article aims to unpack the stereotypes on women seeking abortions in the Uruguayan legal discourse and map how the law on abortion gives legal force to these harmful stereotyped ideas. This article analyses the parliamentary proceedings on the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy Act. It asks: Do the debates on abortion in Uruguay reveal a cultural shift? Do members of parliament’s arguments hinge on harmful stereotypes?

In asking these questions, this article explores the extent to which a fairly liberal and widely praised domestic abortion law complies with the national and international human rights obligations to eradicate harmful gender stereotypes. Mining the rhetoric used in the parliament debates reveals the stereotyped images of women that seek abortion services that—rather than reflecting the true complexity and diverse experiences of women that seek abortion—are grounded in women’s perceived degree of deviance from gendered stereotypes, particularly those surrounding motherhood. Uruguayan abortion law, while seemingly protecting women’s rights, in fact hinges on traditional gender attitudes and stereotypes. This article provides the foundations to further develop sophisticated legal and political strategies for fulfilling women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights.

(Re)pensando la libertad de expresión

Estefanía Vela Barba, Alejandro Madrazo Lajous
2013

Un análisis de la doctrina de la libertad de expresión en México, a partir de una lectura de la Constitución y de fallos recientes de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación

The Constitution of Mexico

Francisca Pou Giménez
2020 | Oxford University Press

Clinical Legal Education in Latin America: Towards Public Interest

Erika Castro, Nicolás Espejo, Mariela Puga, Marta Villarreal
2010 | Oxford University Press

Clinical legal education is playing an increasingly important role in educating lawyers worldwide. Here, the contributors describe the central concepts, goals, and methods of clinical legal education from a global perspective, with a particular emphasis on its social justice mission.

Abortion

Agustina Ramón Michel
2020 | Oxford University Press

Decolonizing Approaches to Latin American Social Movements

María Carolina Olarte Olarte, Juliana Flórez Flórez
2021