Cultures of Legality: Judicialization and Political Activism in Latin America
Cultures of Legality: Judicialization and Political Activism in Latin America
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合法文化：拉丁美洲的司法化和政治行动主义
DOI：
10.1017/cbo9780511730269
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发表时间：
2010
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R. Sieder
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作者：
Javier A. Couso;Alexandra Huneeus;R. Sieder
拉丁美洲的法律的实践和法律观念正在发生巨大的变化。今天，世纪之交的一批宪法赠款高等法院更大的权力;提供了一长串的社会、经济和文化权利;并在法律等级中赋予国际条约“或更高”的宪法地位。高等法院也开始扮演权利捍卫者的角色，介入重大政治争议。相应地，政治诉求往往采取法律的形式。法律、法律的论述和法律的机构在政治竞技场中的重要性日益增加，导致学者们报告说，该区域正在进行“政治司法化”。我们的卷探讨了这种变化的法律的文化景观。从形式主义不再是描述拉丁美洲法律的文化的一个有用的概念的假设开始，“并且在任何情况下总是一个过度简化”，我们探索伴随、导致和作为政治司法化的后果的法律的思想和实践的剧目。
Legal practices and ideas about law are undergoing dramatic change in Latin America. Today, a turn-of-the-century crop of constitutions grants higher courts greater powers; provides long lists of social, economic, and cultural rights; and assigns international treaties constitutional status "or better" within the hierarchy of laws. High courts, in turn, have begun to cast themselves as defenders of rights and to intervene in significant political controversies. And, correspondingly, political claims more often take legal forms. The growing importance of law, legal discourse and legal institutions in the political arena has led scholars to report that a "judicialization of politics" is underway in the region. Our volume explores this landscape of changing legal cultures. Starting with the assumption that formalism is no longer a useful concept for describing Latin American legal cultures "and was in any case always an oversimplification" we explore the repertoires of legal ideas and practices that accompany, cause, and are a consequence of the judicialization of politics.