Shifting Legal Visions
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Shifting Legal Visions

Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America

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Shifting Legal Visions

Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America

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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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781316723319
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Human Rights
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Epigraph
  8. Table of contents
  9. List of Figures
  10. List of Tables
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. 1 From Unresponsive to Responsive Judiciaries
  13. 2 Legal Preferences and Strategic Litigation
  14. 3 Argentina
  15. 4 Peru
  16. 5 Mexico
  17. 6 Comparative Perspectives on the Problem of Legal Preferences
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index