Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito

Radical Deprivation on Trial (eBook, ePUB)

The Impact of Judicial Activism on Socioeconomic Rights in the Global South

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an empirical study of contributions by courts in the Global South to comparative constitutionalism. It offers an analytical framework for understanding these constitutional innovations and illustrates them with a qualitative study of the most ambitious case in constitutional adjudication in Latin America over the last decade: the Colombian Constitutional Court's structural injunction affecting the rights of over five million internally displaced people and its implementation process. Although the ruling (known as T25) was handed down in 2004, its monitoring process continues. This book traces the case's evolution from its origin to its effects on policy, politics and public opinion. It also compares the implementation and effects of T25 with those of other rulings on the rights to health, food, housing, and prison overcrowding in Colombia, India and South Africa. The study's insights will be of interest to scholars of comparative constitutionalism in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316403785
• Artikelnr.: 53051019

Autorenporträt

Cesar Rodríguez-Garavito is an associate professor and founding director of the Program on Global Justice and Human Rights at the University of the Andes, Colombia, and a founding member of the Center for Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia). He is the author of numerous articles and co-editor of several books including Law and Society in Latin America (2015), Balancing Wealth and Health (2014) and Law and Globalization from Below (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Studying Impact: Activist Courts Addressing Radical Deprivation: 1.
The impact of judicial activism on socioeconomic rights in the Global
South: an analytical framework; 2. The case study: forced internal
displacement and the intervention of the Colombian Constitutional Court;
Part II. Direct, Indirect, Material, and Symbolic Effects: 3. The unlocking
effect: judicial prodding and streamlining the government bureaucracy; 4.
The policy effect: design and evaluation of public policies through
judicial incentives; 5. The participatory effect: dialogic judicial
activism, public deliberation, and problem solving; 6. The reframing
effect: forced displacement as a human rights problem; 7. The socioeconomic
effect: the impact on the situation of internally displaced persons; Part
III. Dialogic Judicial Activism in Comparative Perspective: 8. Explaining
impact in comparative constitutionalism: an empirical case for dialogic
judicial activism; 9. Conclusions: comparative constitutionalism as
institutional imagination.