This book offers a comprehensive introduction to law and policy responses to contemporary
problems in Latin America such as human rights violations regulatory dilemmas economic
inequality and access to knowledge and medicine. It includes 19 chapters written by
sociologists lawyers and political scientists on the transformations of courts institutions
and rights protection in Latin America all of which stem from presentations at conferences in
Oxford and UCL organised by the editors. The contributors present original analyses based on
rigorous research innovative case-studies and interdisciplinary perspectives all written in
an accessible style. Topics include the Inter-American Court of Human Rights institutional
design financial regulation competition discrimination gender quotas police violence
orphan works healthcare and environmental protection among others. The book will be of
interest to students and scholars interested in policymaking public law and development.
