Judicial Tenure and Retirements

Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Andrea Castagnola (2023)

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour

A chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour on Judicial Tenure and Retirements by Andrea Castagnola, adjunct professor at the University Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires & Consultant on justice, the rule of law and transparency for the IADB and World Bank and her colleague Aníbal Pérez-Liñán. Abstract Judicial tenure is often perceived […]

Revisiting Health Rights Litigation and Access to Medications in Costa Rica: Preliminary Evidence from the Cochrane Collaboration Reform

Olman Rodríguez Loaiza, Sigrid Morales, Ole Frithjof Norheim, and Bruce M. Wilson (2018)

Health and Human Rights

Abstract In response to the incremental creation of an expansive constitutional right to health in Costa Rica, the country’s rights-friendly constitutional chamber of the Supreme Court (known as the Sala IV) unleashed a flood of litigation for medications, treatments, and other health care issues. This development was met by widespread criticism from within the health […]