Law and Policy in Latin America Transforming Courts, Institutions, and Rights [Hardcover]

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to law and policy responses to contemporary problems in Latin America, such as human rights violations, regulatory dilemmas, economic inequality, and access to knowledge and medicine. It includes 19 chapters written by sociologists, lawyers, and political scientists on the transformations of courts, institutions and rights protection in Latin America, all of which stem from presentations at conferences in Oxford and UCL organised by the editors. The contributors present original analyses based on rigorous research, innovative case-studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives, all written in an accessible style. Topics include the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, institutional design, financial regulation, competition, discrimination, gender quotas, police violence, orphan works, healthcare, and environmental protection, among others. The book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in policymaking, public law, and development.

Acknowledgements.-?Preface.-?Notes on Contributors.-?Introduction.-?Part I  Courts, Constitutionalism and the Inter-American System.-?1.Brazilian Supremocracy and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Unpicking an Unclear Relationship;?Tom Gerald Daly.-?2?Transnational Legal Process and Fundamental Rights in Latin America: How does the Inter-American Human Rights System Reshape Domestic Constitutional Rights?;?Marcelo Torelly.-?3?Complying (Partially) with the Compulsory Judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights;?Dami?n Gonz?lez-Salzberg.-?4?Media Representations of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights;?Diego Gil McCawley, Rolando Garcia Miron, and Lawrence M. Friedman.-?Part II  Institutional Development: Policy Implementation and Change.-?5 The Evolving Relationship between Law and Development: Proposing New Tools;?Helena Alviar Garcia.-?6?Transnational Legal Indicators: The Missing Link in an Era of Law and Development;?David RlsQ