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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      08 August 2009
      22 December 2008
      ISBN:
      9780511551727
      9780521492027
      9781107677937
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551727
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.71kg, 448 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.66kg, 450 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Law, Human Rights, Politics and International Relations, Latin American Government, Politics and Policy
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Law, Human Rights, Politics and International Relations, Latin American Government, Politics and Policy
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    Together with the expansive process of human rights constitutional declarations, in addition to the writ of habeas corpus and of habeas data, Latin American constitutions created a specific judicial remedy for the protection of constitutional rights, known as the suit, action, recourse, or writ of amparo. After spreading throughout Latin America, it was incorporated in the American Convention of Human Rights. It is similar to the 'injunctions' and the other equitable remedies of the United States legal system. This book examines, with a comparative constitutional law approach, trends in the constitutional and legal regulations in all Latin American countries regarding the amparo proceeding. It is an abridged version of the course of lectures the author gave at the Columbia Law School analyzing the regulations of the seventeen amparo statutes in force in Latin America, as well as the regulation on the amparo guarantee established in Article 25 of the American Convention on Human Rights.

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    "...a valuable reference guide to lawyers, legal scholars, and social scientists interested in the judicial protection of rights in Latin American countries, whether they have previous knowledge of the civil law tradition or not ... Describing in quite good detail yet in an accessible manner the constitutional and legal characteristics of a rather complex judicial remedy across nineteen countries is an unquestionable accomplishment of this book..."
    --Julio Rios-Figueroa, Division de Estudios Politicos, CIDE, The Law and Politics Book Review

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