BOOK LAUNCH- Law and Policy in Latin America: Transforming Courts, Institutions, and Rights

Event date
14 November 2017
Event time
12:00 - 13:00
Oxford week
Venue
Centre for Social Legal Studies Room 341
Speaker(s)
Pedro Fortes, Larissa Boratti, Andrés Palacios, and Tom Gerald Daly (editors)

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to law and policy responses to contemporary problems in Latin America, such as human rights violations, regulatory dilemmas, economic inequality, and access to knowledge and medicine. It includes 19 chapters written by sociologists, lawyers, and political scientists on the transformations of courts, institutions and rights protection in Latin America, all of which stem from presentations at conferences in Oxford and UCL organised by the editors. The contributors present original analyses based on rigorous research, innovative case-studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives, all written in an accessible style. Topics include the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, institutional design, financial regulation, competition, discrimination, gender quotas, police violence, orphan works, healthcare, and environmental protection, among others. The book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in policymaking, public law, and development.

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Socio-Legal Studies