Political judicialization and political activism: an approach to Latin America
There are things that the judges do that impact on the political sphere, the sphere of those who represent the other state bodies. It has long been accepted that the judges had a different field of proceeding from the other public institutions, but this situation has been changing in the recent year...
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| Format: | Article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication date: | 2016 |
| Country: | Costa Rica |
| Institution: | UNA |
| Repository: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/8373 |
| Online Access: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/derechoshumanos/article/view/8373 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Judges models judiciary judicialization of politics judicial activism. Jueces modelos de judicatura judicialización de la política activismo judicial. |
| Summary: | There are things that the judges do that impact on the political sphere, the sphere of those who represent the other state bodies. It has long been accepted that the judges had a different field of proceeding from the other public institutions, but this situation has been changing in the recent years. Indeed, we are witness the persistent dismantling of the idea that the judge is "the mouth of the law", a mere applicator of rules, and this fact has contributed to an internalization of concepts like judicialization of politics or judicial activism. Its scope and the differences between them is the following paper about. |
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