| Shifting Legal Visions: Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America Contributor(s): González-Ocantos, Ezequiel A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107145236 ISBN-13: 9781107145238 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: August 2016 Click for more in this series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Human Rights - Law | Criminal Law - General |
| Dewey: 345.802 |
| LCCN: 2016010902 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.38 lbs) 342 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gonzalez-Ocantos, Ezequiel a.: - Ezequiel A. González-Ocantos is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, at the University of Oxford. He received his B.A. in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2005, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2012. González-Ocantos won the American Political Science Association's Edward S. Corwin Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public law. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and The International Journal of Human Rights. |
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