After more than seventy years of uninterrupted authoritarian government headed by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Mexico formally began the tran

Jodi S. Finkel examines judicial reforms leading to increased judicial independence and authority in three Latin American countries: Argentina, Mexico, and Peru

During the last two decades the judiciary has come to play an increasingly important political role in Latin America. Constitutional courts and supreme courts a

To what extent do courts in Latin America protect individual rights and limit governments? This volume answers these fundamental questions by bringing together

Mexico's Unrule of Law: Human Rights and Police Reform Under Democratization looks at recent Mexican criminal justice reforms. Using Mexico City as a case study