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Author :Ezequiel A. González-Ocantos Publisher :Cambridge University Press ISBN 13 :1316720918 Total Pages :343 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (167 download)
Book Synopsis Shifting Legal Visions by : Ezequiel A. González-Ocantos
Download or read book Shifting Legal Visions written by Ezequiel A. González-Ocantos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Shifting Legal Visions by : Ezequiel A. Gonzáles-Ocantos
Download or read book Shifting Legal Visions written by Ezequiel A. Gonzáles-Ocantos and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-depth study of processes of judicial transformation that enabled the success of human rights trials in Latin America.
Book Synopsis Shifting Legal Visions by : Ezequiel A. González-Ocantos
Download or read book Shifting Legal Visions written by Ezequiel A. González-Ocantos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of processes of judicial transformation that enabled the success of human rights trials in Latin America.
Download or read book Shifting Visions written by Allyson Jule and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies explores recent research in the area of gender and language use experienced around the world. Featuring an interdisciplinary and global approach, the contributors demonstrate how focus on gender and language creates the lived experience. The studies in this book use gender and language to analyze a broad range of topics including religion, politics, education and sexuality. Contributions include the use of language of a new female bishop in Canada, hetronormativity in language use in Croatia, women's magazines in Japan, and the electoral code in Cameroon. Using critical/feminist discourse analysis, the chapters represent scholarship from Britain, Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. Readers in applied linguistics, sociology, women’s studies and education who are interested in language and its power in creating the lived experience will find this book full of intriguing and illuminating connections.
Book Synopsis Justice and Memory after Dictatorship by : Raluca Grosescu
Download or read book Justice and Memory after Dictatorship written by Raluca Grosescu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the fall of military and communist dictatorships at the end of the 1980s, Latin American and Eastern European countries had to reckon with atrocities perpetrated by these Cold War regimes. Judges, prosecutors, and human rights campaigners across the two regions constructed novel readings of international criminal law to fight impunity and realize justice for gross human rights violations. Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: Latin America, Central Eastern Europe and the Fragmentation of International Criminal Law provides a groundbreaking socio-historical account of the global transformation of international criminal law from these two semi-peripheries of the world system. Based on ethnographic observation and analyses of jurisprudence, Raluca Grosescu dissects the narratives that were fundamentally shaped by the relationship of law and politics. Using paradigmatic cases and personal interviews with lawyers and judicial officials from Latin America and Eastern Europe, Grosescu uncovers how legal actors and organizations were instrumental in questioning an international order that marginalized the political violence that had unfolded in the two regions during the Cold War. Justice and Memory after Dictatorship is a significant volume in modern international criminal and human rights law and an important read for scholars, students, and legal practitioners alike.
Book Synopsis Military Courts, Civil-Military Relations, and the Legal Battle for Democracy by : Brett J. Kyle
Download or read book Military Courts, Civil-Military Relations, and the Legal Battle for Democracy written by Brett J. Kyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interaction between military and civilian courts, the political power that legal prerogatives can provide to the armed forces, and the difficult process civilian politicians face in reforming military justice remain glaringly under-examined, despite their implications for the quality and survival of democracy. This book breaks new ground by providing a theoretically rich, global examination of the operation and reform of military courts in democratic countries. Drawing on a newly created dataset of 120 countries over more than two centuries, it presents the first comprehensive picture of the evolution of military justice across states and over time. Combined with qualitative historical case studies of Colombia, Portugal, Indonesia, Fiji, Brazil, Pakistan, and the United States, the book presents a new framework for understanding how civilian actors are able to gain or lose legal control of the armed forces. The book’s findings have important lessons for scholars and policymakers working in the fields of democracy, civil-military relations, human rights, and the rule of law.
Book Synopsis Culture in the Domains of Law by : René Provost
Download or read book Culture in the Domains of Law written by René Provost and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines whether law, as a cultural practice, can apply across cultural boundaries to bind people with vastly different beliefs and practices.
Download or read book Law's Wars written by Richard L. Abel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 939 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law's Wars is the first comprehensive account of efforts to resist and correct rule of law violations in the US 'war on terror'.
Book Synopsis Studies in Law, Politics, and Society by : Austin Sarat
Download or read book Studies in Law, Politics, and Society written by Austin Sarat and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of Studies in Law, Politics and Society brings together an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars to explore issues on the cutting edge of socio-legal research.
Book Synopsis Law and the Epistemologies of the South by : Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Download or read book Law and the Epistemologies of the South written by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-09 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern state law excludes populations, peoples, and social groups by making them invisible, irrelevant, or dangerous. In this book, Boaventura de Sousa Santos offers a radical critique of the law and develops an innovative paradigm of socio-legal studies which is based on the historical experience of the Global South. He traces the history of modern law as an abyssal law, or a kind of law that is theoretically invisible yet implements profound exclusions in practice. This abyssal line has been the key procedure used by modern modes of domination - capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy - to divide people into two groups, the metropolitan and the colonial, or the fully human and the sub-human. Crucially, de Sousa Santos rejects the decadent pessimism that claims that we are living through 'the end of history'. Instead, this book offers practical, hopeful alternatives to social exclusion and modern legal domination, aiming to make post-abyssal legal utopias a reality.
Book Synopsis Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements by : Whitney K. Taylor
Download or read book Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements written by Whitney K. Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal and social movement scholars have long puzzled over the role of movements in moving, being moved by, and changing the meanings of the law. But for decades, these two strands of scholarship only dovetailed at their edges, in the work of a few far-seeing scholars. The fields began to more productively merge before and after the turn of the century. In this Element, the authors take an interactive approach to this problem and sketch four mechanisms that seem promising in effecting a true fusion: legal mobilization, legal-political opportunity structure, social construction, and movement-countermovement interaction. The Element also illustrates the workings and interactions of these four mechanisms from two examples of the authors' work: the campaign for same-sex marriage in the United States and social constitutionalism in South Africa.
Book Synopsis The New Fourth Branch by : Mark Tushnet
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Book Synopsis Lawyers in Conflict and Transition by : Kieran McEvoy
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Book Synopsis The Courts and the People: Friend or Foe? by : DJ Galligan
Download or read book The Courts and the People: Friend or Foe? written by DJ Galligan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the courts our friend or our foe? This book has three parts: Part I considers the case for judicial independence Part II looks at the question 'Is judicial independence under threat?' Part III reflects on whether judicial independence be defended and protected. Prompted by the constitutional crisis following the referendum of 2016, the Foundation for Law Justice and Society convened the second Putney Debates. Now convened on an annual basis, they provide a forum each year for the discussion of matters of constitutional importance. The original Putney Debates were held in St Mary's Church, Putney in 1647. The Civil War had been won, the King was held prisoner, the New Model Army was in control. In late October of that year, the weekly meeting of the High Council of the New Model Army, under the chairmanship of Oliver Cromwell, together with several civilians, turned into a debate about the constitution. This is perhaps the only occasion in modern history that a constitutional convention has been held on the English constitution.
Book Synopsis Criminal Defense in China by : Sida Liu
Download or read book Criminal Defense in China written by Sida Liu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the struggles for basic legal freedoms in the work and political mobilization of defense lawyers in China's criminal justice system.
Book Synopsis Negotiating the Power of NGOs by : Reem Wael
Download or read book Negotiating the Power of NGOs written by Reem Wael and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the role of NGOs as mediators in crucial litigation cases on women's rights in South Africa.
Book Synopsis Health as a Human Right by : Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz
Download or read book Health as a Human Right written by Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth critical analysis of the effects of the right to health in Brazil over the past thirty years.
