Institutional Reform and Rights Revolutions in Latin America: The Cases of Costa Rica and Colombia

Wilson, Bruce M.

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“…Second, and more generally, the redemptive bid thesis also cautions us to disaggregate rights. Scholars of law and politics often ask the question what conditions must be present for judges to protect “rights” (Epp 1998; Couso 2004; Conant 2006; Hilbink 2007; Wilson 2009). But the category “rights” seems to assume that the varied political struggles that arrive at courts' dockets will receive similar judicial treatment, if only they come dressed in rights language.…”

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Judging from a Guilty Conscience: The Chilean Judiciary's Human Rights Turn

Huneeus¹

2010

Law soc. inq.

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Since the detention of General Pinochet in London in 1998 on charges of crimes against humanity, Chile's judges have sentenced more former officials of the military regime for human rights violations than judges of any other country in Latin America. This article argues that the prosecutorial turn reflects the judiciary's attempt to atone for its complicity with the dictatorship. The London arrest created pressure for prosecution of Pinochet‐era human rights violations; but it is the contest over the judiciary's legacy, as an important piece of postauthoritarian memory struggles, that explains why Chile's notoriously illiberal judiciary ceded to that pressure. By reconceptualizing judicial culture as contested, heterogeneous, and dynamic, this article opens the door to richer understandings of judicial politics, transitional justice, and the reception of international human rights.

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“…5 5 See Epp (1998), Couso (2004), Conant (2006), Hilbink (2007), and Wilson (2009) for studies that focus on rights within the emerging comparative judicial politics literature. For studies on the judicialization of politics more generally, see Tate and Vallinder (1995), Shapiro and Stone Sweet (2002), and Sieder, Schjolden and Angell (2005). …”

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Judging from a Guilty Conscience: The Chilean Judiciary's Human Rights Turn

Huneeus¹

2010

Law soc. inq.

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“…For instance, Wilson (2009; has argued that "rights revolutions" in Costa Rica and Colombia over the past two decades stemmed from the fact that Superior Courts in these countries abandoned high levels of judicial formality, adopted broad definitions of standing, removed barriers to access, and resolved cases quickly, thereby making it possible for poor and marginalised groups to access and utilise the court system successfully to promote their rights without the support of SSLMs (see also Conant, 2006;Wilson and Cordero, 2006). Rather than promoting the development of SSLMs, he suggests, rights advocates should focus on constructing court systems that maximise their accessibility to the poor and marginalised.…”

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Realising Rights in Low Quality Democracies: Instructive Asian Cases

Rosser

2015

Asian Studies Review

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Do justiciable legal frameworks for the protection of human rights (JLFPHR) promote the realisation of human rights in countries with low quality democracies? If so, under what conditions? And what do answers to these questions imply for activists' strategies for promoting human rights? This essay considers these questions drawing on the papers published here on Indonesia, Nepal, Malaysia and Timor Leste. It suggests that while rights agendas encounter serious political, social and institutional obstacles in low quality democracies, JLFPHR make a positive contribution to rights realisation by: (i) aiding political mobilisation by poor and marginalised groups and their supporters in the NGO movement and (ii) providing a legal basis for these groups to challenge rights breaches through the courts, at least where viable legal pathways for such efforts exist and these groups can muster the financial, organisational and technical resources required to launch and sustain court cases. In terms of strategy, the paper thus suggests that, in addition to constructing JLFPHR, rights activists should focus on facilitating political mobilisation around rights issues, constructing legal pathways that are likely to be receptive to rights causes, and creating support structures to enable citizens to exploit these pathways.

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“…En posiciones intermedias se encuentran dos tipos de cortes. Primero, aquellas que he categorizado como ciudadanas, que son las que formalmente pueden brindar una alta protección a los derechos de las personas, o lo que ha sido denominado como "revolución de derechos ciudadanos" (Wilson, 2009). Una corte ciudadana, en general, se caracteriza por otorgar facilidades de acceso a la ciudadanía y, de la mano de esto, sus sentencias gozarán de varios elementos tendientes a garantizar una reparación integral de derechos.…”

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El poder constitucional en América Latina: hacia una tipología de las cortes constitucionales de la región

Valarezo¹

2019

OPE

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Los tipos de cortes constitucionales que existen en América Latina vienen dados por las variaciones institucionales en los poderes que tienen estas cortes. De un lado, sus atribuciones como árbitros de la política, en donde pueden alterar la estabilidad política y controlar a las autoridades del Estado; de otro, el poder de protección de derechos ciudadanos, materializado a través de la judicialización de la política. Tomando como referente empírico siete países de la región que tienen cortes constitucionales autónomas, se construye una tipología en donde interaccionan las dos variables. Colombia y Ecuador aparecen como referentes de cortes imperiales, mientras que Guatemala y Chile quedan rezagadas en su dotación de poderes formales. Los hallazgos dan cuenta que en la región existe un fortalecimiento de los poderes de protección ciudadana de las cortes, en desmedro de sus poderes políticos.

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Institutional Reform and Rights Revolutions in Latin America: The Cases of Costa Rica and Colombia

Cited by 72 publications

References 25 publications

Judging from a Guilty Conscience: The Chilean Judiciary's Human Rights Turn

Judging from a Guilty Conscience: The Chilean Judiciary's Human Rights Turn

Realising Rights in Low Quality Democracies: Instructive Asian Cases

El poder constitucional en América Latina: hacia una tipología de las cortes constitucionales de la región

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