Over the past decade, Hugo Chavez has remade the Venezuelan polity into his own image, centralizing power and undermining his rivals. The most strikin...
This essay has various objectives. First, it seeks to provide an approximation of the structure of the judiciary in Latin America from an institutiona...
Reseña:Despite a title that evokes the Fox Television perennial When AnimalsAttack, When Courts & Congress Collide: The Struggle for Control ofAme...
Reseña: State judicial elections have been transformed during the past decade. The story of America’s2000–2009 high court contests—tens of millions of...
This article studies the continued existence of subnational undemocratic regimes in Argentina and Mexico, two countries that have recently experienced...
One of the most significant developments in Latin American politics and political economy in the last two decades has been the increasing decentraliza...
Institutional instability and inter-branch crises pose a fundamental challenge to democracies in Latin America and the developing world more generally...
Despite its important tradition in international law, international legal philosophy has, for the most part, been left aside by scholars during the pa...
The purpose of this project is to inform policy makers about the incidence of civil justice problems and the extent of unmet need for assistance that ...
Democratic transitions in Brazil and the southern cone have had relatively little impact on patterns of policing. Close military-police ties, militari...
This article studies the behavior of Mexico’s Federal Supreme Court (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación) (SCJN) regarding human rights during its ...
This paper argues that the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Bu...
Abstract. This article examines the difficulties faced by the civilian administrations that replaced the 17-year old military government of General Au...
Policymaking in Peru over the last 25 years has been largely dominated by the Executive, and has been influenced by a variety of structural and politi...
2010 year in review of the work of the Innocence Project, a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully con...
This paper will provide a context for underestanding the American objections to the jurisdiction of the ICC prosecutors, who have the power to initiat...
Presentation made at the The 10th annual Conference and General Meeting of the International Association of Prosecutors held in Copenhagen, Denmark on...
The topic of this Colloquium in Perugia brings to mind the early twentieth-century debate over the existence of a Latin American international law. It...
Document discusses how policy makers can best design policies to help law enforcement and combat ever-evolving threats in the cyber realm as criminals...
