Courts in Latin America / edited by Gretchen Helmke and Julio Rios-Figueroa.

Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2011.

1st edition

78501

Constitutional courts -- Latin America.

Courts of last resort -- Latin America.

Judicial process -- Latin America.

Civil rights -- Latin America.

1. Institutions for constitutional justice in Latin America

2. Enforcing rights and exercising an accountability function : Costa Rica's Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court

3. Strategic deference in the Colombian Constitutional Court, 1992-2006

4. From quietism to incipient activism : the institutional and ideological roots of rights adjudication in Chile

5. Faithful servants of the regime : the Brazilian Constitutional Court's role under the 1988 Constitution

6. Power broker, policymaker, or rights protector? : the Brazilian Supremo Tribunal Federal in transition

7. Legalist versus interpretivist : the Supreme Court and the democratic transition in Mexico

8. Theory of the politically independent judiciary : a comparative study of the United States and Argentina

9. Courts, power and rights in Argentina and Chile

10. Bolivia : the rise (and fall) of judicial review

11. The puzzling judicial politics in Latin America : a theory of litigation, judicial decisions and interbranch conflict.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781107001091

x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm