Shifting legal visions : judicial change and human rights trials in Latin America /
"What explains the success of criminal prosecutions against former Latin American officials accused of human rights violations? Why did some judiciaries evolve from unresponsive bureaucracies into protectors of victim rights? Using a theory of judicial action inspired by sociological institutio...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2017, c2016.
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| Edición: | 1st paperback ed. |
| Colección: | Cambridge studies in law and society
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| 100 | 1 | |a González Ocantos, Ezequiel, |d 1984- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Shifting legal visions : |b judicial change and human rights trials in Latin America / |c Ezequiel González-Ocantos. |
| 250 | |a 1st paperback ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2017, c2016. | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 322 p. : |b il. ; |c 23 cm. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Cambridge studies in law and society | |
| 504 | |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 291-313) e índice. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a From unresponsive to responsive judiciaries -- Legal preferences and strategic litigation : a theory of judicial change -- Argentina : pedagogical interventions and replacement strategies in the struggle for human rights -- Peru : pedagogical interventions and human rights trials in unfriendly territory -- Mexico : an untamed judiciary and the failure of criminal prosecutions -- Comparative perspectives on the problem of legal preferences. | |
| 520 | |a "What explains the success of criminal prosecutions against former Latin American officials accused of human rights violations? Why did some judiciaries evolve from unresponsive bureaucracies into protectors of victim rights? Using a theory of judicial action inspired by sociological institutionalism, this book argues that this was the result of deep transformations in the legal preferences of judges and prosecutors. Judicial actors discarded long-standing positivist legal criteria, historically protective of conservative interests, and embraced doctrines grounded in international human rights law, which made possible innovative readings of constitutions and criminal codes. Litigants were responsible for this shift in legal visions by activating informal mechanisms of ideational change and providing the skills necessary to deal with complex and unusual cases. Through an in-depth exploration of the interactions between judges, prosecutors and human rights lawyers in three countries, the book asks how changing ideas about the law and standards of adjudication condition the exercise of judicial power." --Descripción del editor. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Human rights |z Latin America. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Criminal justice, Administration of |z Latin America. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Due process of law |z Latin America. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Court congestion and delay |z Latin America. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Trials |z Latin America. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Derechos humanos |z América Latina. |2 UDESA | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Justicia penal, Administración de la |z América Latina. |2 UDESA | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Debido procedimiento legal |z América Latina. |2 UDESA | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Tribunales |x Demora en el proceso |z América Latina. |2 UDESA | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Juicios |z América Latina. |2 UDESA | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Cambridge studies in law and society | |