“…Scholars have also commented on informal dynamics of interest within the judiciary, such as specialised courts (Klein, 2003;Pompe, 2005). Other studies, concerned with the dynamics of judicial protection of rights in comparative perspective (Epp, 1998;Hilbink and Woods, 2009;Hirschl, 2004), have illuminated the role of ideational networks of judges in legal change (Hilbink, 2007;Ingram, 2016aIngram, , 2016bNunes, 2010). However, studies of patronage networks remind us that networks may have limited ability to resist change (see Rios-Figueroa and Pozas Loyo, 2018).…”