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| Author(s): |
Evorah Lusci Costa Cardoso
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Direito (FD/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2012-06-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Jose Eduardo Campos de Oliveira Faria;
Fernando Herren Fernandes Aguillar;
Luciana Gross Siqueira Cunha;
Ana Cristina Braga Martes;
Claudia Perrone Moises
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| Advisor: | Jose Eduardo Campos de Oliveira Faria |
| Abstract | |
Courts and civil society in Latin America are under transformation, as well as the relationship between them. Cases of great social repercussion, judicial decisions which affect public policies, concentration effects of judgments, deliberation mechanisms within the processes are phenomena related to these changes. The thesis of this work is that both the institutional design of the courts affect social legal mobilization and the presence of strong social mobilization around the courts can influence not only their cases agenda, but also its institutional design. This relationship needs to be studied in a dynamic and functional way. To this end, interviews were conducted with nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, scholars, judges and funding agencies in Argentina, Brazil and Colombia. It is the compared narrative of these actors that offers the \"variables\" of institutional design and of legal and social mobilization that are relevant to understand these changes. The thesis finally points to the need to reform the agendas of the actors involved on the reflections about the interplay between courts and civil society, in terms of practical experimentation, institutional imagination, theoretical challenges and legitimation. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/00264-0 - Supreme Courts and civil society in Latin America: comparative studies in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia |
| Grantee: | Evorah Lusci Costa Cardoso |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |