Costa Rica and Colombia, two of the earliest Latin American countries to protect many LGBT rights, attempted to amplify those rights and litigate same-sex ...

Costa Rica: Understanding variations in compliance Bruce M. Wilson and Olman A. Rodríguez L. Malcolm

This chapter tracks Costa Rica’s long transition from a particularistic to a universal ethical society using a process-tracing methodology. It argues ...

Although Costa Rica has no explicit constitutional right to health, its constitutional chamber of the Supreme Court (Sala IV) has become increasingly ...

Claiming Individual Rights through a Constitutional Court: The Example of Gays in Costa Rica Bruce

The general election in Costa Rica, February 2010 Bruce Wilson, Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Cordero Elect

In response to the incremental creation of an expansive constitutional right to health in Costa Rica, the country’s rights-friendly constitutional ...

Alicia Ely Yamin and Siri Gloppen, the authors of the new book Litigating Health Rights, opens the Global Health Challenges week with a book launch of their book on health right litigation in Costa Rica, South Africa, India, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.

Assessing the impact of health rights litigation: A comparative analysis of Argentina, Brazil, Col

The Costa Rica's Constitutional Court, is the titel of Bruce Wilson's seminar at CMI.There is little dispute that Costa Rica has experienced both a judicial and more specifically a "rights revolution" in the last 15 years. The creation of a new constitutional chamber of the Supreme Court in 1989 created a legal opportunity for virtually every sector of society to seek legal redress and have their constitutional rights enforced or protected.

In spite of the economic and social policy successes of Latin America’s longest surviving democracy, corruption has become a major problem shaking ...

Feminists and religious conservatives across the globe have increasingly turned to courts in their battles over abortion. Yet while a significant literature ...

In a surprising turn of events, a “rainbow revolution” has blossomed in Latin America. In spite of the region’s long history of deep-rooted ...

Should I stay or should I go? An anthropological study of the Puerto Rican migration process Stine

What role can and do courts play in protecting the interests and rights of vulnerable groups? Why do some marginalized groups succeed in having their rights recognized by the courts, while others fail?

Este informe ofrece un panorama de los desafíos que mujeres indígenas en América Latina enfrentan cuando acceden a la justicia oficial ...

Nefissa Naguib and Maria Celina D'Araujo will host a panel on military-civilian interaction in Latin America at the annual Congreso Internacional de Americanistas

Este libro es producto de un esfuerzo colectivo por hacer un diagnostic crítico de los estudios sobre el derecho en América Latina y proponer ...

In 2010, a UN Resolution explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS). But has this international recognition improved the ability ...

In this presention Dr Aragon, the new director of FLACSO Guatemala and well-known columnist and educational specialist from Guatemala will discuss the challenges to Peace and Development in Central America.