This volume examines the role of courts as a channel for social transformation for excluded sectors of society in contemporary democracies, with a focus on soci

Using case studies drawn from Latin America, Africa, India and Eastern Europe, this volume examines the role of courts as a channel for social transformation fo

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

The power of national and transnational constitutional courts to issue binding rulings in interpreting the constitution or an international treaty has been endl

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