Protección de derechos y deliberación judicial interna: el caso “bandera” y los inicios de las teorías contemporáneas sobre libertad de expresión

Francisca Pou Giménez
2018 | Tirant lo Blanch

El homenaje que se rinde en estas páginas es el resultado de una profunda
reflexión sobre las condiciones en las que el cambio social y jurídico ha sido
posible a partir de la notable aportación del ministro José Ramón Cossío Díaz
a la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación. Durante los últimos años, se ha
advertido un dramático incremento de sentencias en materia de derechos
fundamentales en el país. Asuntos cuya discusión fue inimaginable en el pasado,
han sido activamente debatidos y resueltos por las y los ministros. Los autores
convocados se han dado a la tarea de narrar su propia percepción, desde el
espacio y la materia en que les tocó interactuar con el ministro Cossío, a fin de
presentar en este libro una imagen completa y ofrecer su perspectiva de cómo
diversas condiciones institucionales impulsadas bajo su liderazgo dieron lugar a
esa nueva actitud adoptada por la Suprema Corte.

Deadly forces: The Lethality Index of Mexican security forces 2007-2015

Catalina Pérez Correa, Carlos Silva, Rodrigo Gutiérrez
2019

Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America

Karina, ed. Ansolabehere, Rachel, ed. Sieder, Tatiana Alfonso Sierra, Marta Rodríguez de Assis Machado
2019 | Routledge

In common with other regional traditions of law and society studies, law and society research in Latin America is concerned with the relationship between law – understood broadly as norms, institutions, and practices – and long-run patterns of development, political environment, institutional forms, and cultural specificities. However, as we argue in this introduction, even when it is impossible to characterize such a diverse region, the distinctive contours of socio-legal research in Latin America have been particularly shaped over time by key political and historical junctures, and by the changing nature of the socio-legal academy. 1 Unsurprisingly, law and society scholarship in the late twentieth century was marked by shifts in the region’s political history: from the initial optimism about legal transplants during the period of the Alliance for Progress, and the subsequent law and development movement, through the pessimism of the years of dictatorship when authoritarian legal orders were consolidated, to the role that human rights and new constitutional orders have played in numerous states following transitions from authoritarian rule and civil war. More recently, scholarship has focused on issues such as the justiciability of the rights of indigenous and Afrodescendant peoples, the relationship between law and legal institutions, and social change, or the judicialization of governmental corruption that has led to highly charged confrontations between executives, legislatures, and the judiciary in many countries of the region.