Sol Hourcade, Federico Ghelfi, Luz Palmás Zaldua, Marcela Perelman (2018)
This CMI report (2018:14) was written by Sol Hourcade, Federico Ghelfi, Luz Palmás Zaldua, Marcela Perelman for the research project entitled “Beyond Words: Implementing Latin American Truth Commission Recommendations”. The research project is based at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, is funded by the Research Council of Norway (2015-2017) and headed by Elin Skaar. This publication […]
Héctor Centeno Martín (2018)
This CMI report (2018:13) was written by Héctor Centeno Martín for the research project entitled “Beyond Words: Implementing Latin American Truth Commission Recommendations”. The research project is based at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, is funded by the Research Council of Norway (2015-2017) and headed by Elin Skaar. This publication is in Spanish. El Informe Final […]
Elena Martínez-Barahona, Sonia Rubio-Padilla, Héctor Centeno Martín, Martha Gutiérrez-Salazar (2018)
This CMI report (2018:12) was written by Elena Martínez-Barahona, Sonia Rubio-Padilla, Héctor Centeno Martín, Martha Gutiérrez-Salazar for the research project entitled “Beyond Words: Implementing Latin American Truth Commission Recommendations”. The research project is based at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, is funded by the Research Council of Norway (2015-2017) and headed by Elin Skaar. This publication […]
Elin Skaar (2018)
Elin Skaar has written a book review of Anita Ferrara (2015) Assessing the long-term impact of truth commissions: The Chilean truth and reconciliation commission in historical perspective (Abingdon: Routledge). The review appeared in The Irish Yearbook of International Law, Volume 11-12, 2016-17 It is part of the “Beyond Words: Latin American Truth Commissions’ Recommendations” project. Read more: https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/the-irish-yearbook-of-international-law-volume-11-12-2016-17-9781509925643/
Stener Ekern (2018)
This CMI working paper (2018:7) was written by Stener Ekern for the research project entitled “Beyond Words: Implementing Latin American Truth Commission Recommendations”. The research project is based at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, is funded by the Research Council of Norway (2015-2017) and headed by Elin Skaar. On 17 October 1992, as a consultant to […]
Elin Skaar (2018)
Book Chapter by Elin Skaar (2018) in Gerd Oberleitner (ed.) International Human Rights Institutions, Tribunals and Courts. International Human Rights Singapore: Springer. Truth commissions are an integral component of transitional justice, that is, formal and informal mechanisms set up by the state or civil society to address human rights violations committed in the past. This chapter examines […]
Thomas Keck (2018)
Keck, Thomas M "Assessing Judicial Empowerment" in Laws 7:2 (2018) p. 1-17
Drawing on an ongoing international data collection effort, our affiliate Thomas Keck examines the free expression jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Canada and the European Court of Human Rights in an effort to assess the political beneficiaries of judicial empowerment. Free expression is a universally recognized fundamental right, and it is a right that […]
Andrea Castagnola (2017)
Release date: September 29th, 2017 When can the Executive manipulate the composition of a Court? What political factors explain judicial instability on the bench? Using original field data from Argentina’s National Supreme Court and all twenty-four Provincial Supreme Courts, Andrea Castagnola develops a novel theory to explain forced retirements of judges. She argues that in developing […]
Andrea Castagnola and Saul Lopez Noriega (eds.) (2016)
Andrea Castagnola, Steering Committee Member and Coordinator of Judicial Independence Unit, have together with Saul Lopez Noriega edited the book “Judicial Politics in Mexico. The Supreme Court and the Transition to Democracy” (Routledge). After more than seventy years of uninterrupted authoritarian government headed by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Mexico formally began the transition to […]
Andrea Castagnola and Saul Lopez Noriega (eds) (2016)
A recently edited book that examines the role of the Mexican Supreme Court in the transition to democracy.
Comisiones de la Verdad de Chile: Verdad y Reparaciones como Política de Estado
