This Element describes Latin American innovations in trials and truth commissions, evaluating both the Huntingtonian and Justice Cascade approaches; influential in showing variation in TJ outcomes. It argues that scholars should complement these approaches with one that recognizes the importance of state capacity building and institutional change.
Through an in-depth exploration of the interactions between judges, prosecutors and lawyers in three Latin American countries, Shifting Legal Visions asks how changing ideas about the law condition the outcome of human rights trials and the exercise of judicial power more broadly.
An in-depth study of processes of judicial transformation that enabled the success of human rights trials in Latin America.