Social and Economic Rights in Theory and Practice. Critical Inquiries

Helena Alviar García, Karl Klare
Routledge

This book discusses a range of rights controversies from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It considers specific issues in the litigation and adjudication of social and economic rights cases from the differing standpoints of activists, lawyers, and adjudicators.

Distribution of Resources led by Courts: a few words of Caution

Helena Alviar García, Karl Klare
Routledge

This book discusses a range of rights controversies from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It considers specific issues in the litigation and adjudication of social and economic rights cases from the differing standpoints of activists, lawyers, and adjudicators.

The Peruvian Case: Gender and Transitional Justice

Julissa Mantilla Falcón
2012

Gender equality and taxation in Argentina

Natalia Gherardi, Corina Rodríguez Enríquez, Darío Alejandro Rossignolo
2010 | Routledge

Equity issues are again attracting attention from academics and policy analysts concerned with taxation. This book makes a substantial contribution to this new awareness by emphasizing the important role that gender, like other social stratifications such as race and income, often plays in ...

Law and Violence in Latin America

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2019

From IDPs to victims Colombia: A bottom up reading of law in post-conflict transitions

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
2015 | Routledge

Landscapes of Property: Socio-Legal Perspectives from Latin America

Tatiana Alfonso Sierra
2019 | Routledge

The study of property in Latin America came out of the traditional law school room toward the social laboratory of socio-legal scholars a long time ago with the impulse to understand and explain how property rights and relations work in society. This chapter presents a review of the socio-legal ...

Creole radical feminist transitional justice: An exploration of Colombian feminism in the context of armed conflict

Lina María Céspedes Báez
2018 | Routledge

Supreme and Constitutional Courts: Directions in Constitutional Justice

Francisca Pou Giménez
2019 | Routledge

Society, the State, and Recognition of the Right to a Self-Perceived Gender Identity

Laura Saldivia Menajovsky
2019 | Taylor & Francis Group

In recent years formal and informal initiatives aimed at recognizing the rights of people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities have carved out an important place on the global geopolitical stage, advanced through dissection, debate, and reformulation of diverse national and ...

Constitutional Change and the Supreme Court Institutional Architecture: Decisional Indeterminacy as an Obstacle to Legitimacy

Francisca Pou Giménez
Routledge

After more than seventy years of uninterrupted authoritarian government headed by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Mexico formally began the transition to democracy in 2000. Unlike most other new democracies in Latin America, no special Constitutional Court was set up, nor was there ...

Judicial Review and Rights Protection in Latin America: The Debate on the Regionalization of Activism

Francisca Pou Giménez
2015 | Routledge

Over the past two decades, legal thought and practice in Latin America have changed dramatically: new constitutions or constitutional reforms have consolidated democratic rule, fundamental innovations have been introduced in state institutions, social movements have turned to law to advance their ...

Drug laws in Latin America: The Legal, Institutional and Social Costs of Drug Policy

Catalina Pérez Correa, Alejandro Madrazo Lajous
2019

Constitucional limits on the power of the executive

Elsa Genoveva Guerra Rodríguez
2016

Traditionally relegated because of political pressure and public expectations, courts in Latin America are increasingly asserting a stronger role in public and political discussions. This casebook takes account of this phenomenon, by offering a rigorous and up-to-date discussion of constitutional ...

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, ...