Overview
- Explores the career, professional trajectory, and legal culture of judges in the federal judiciary in Mexico
- Utilises an original survey in its methodology established by the author in prior-published works
- Analyses factors underlying judicial activism or restraint, and behavior vis-à-vis internal and ideational perspectives
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This book explores the careers, professional trajectories and legal cultures of judges in the federal judiciary in Mexico. So far, there has been limited research on internal factors contributing to the understanding of judicial power dynamics in Mexico and other Latin American countries at large; this Work fills an important gap in the literature through its empirical investigation of internal legal cultures and judicial norms, offering new data, measurement strategies,and insights into the interactions between law, politics, norms, legal culture(s), as well as judicial behavior. Utilising an original survey, the chapters analyse judicial conceptualizations of role norms, legal cultures, proclivities for judicial activism, and judicial behavior. In so doing, this book contributes to understanding of underlying key internal factors of judicial activism or restraint, in turn moving forward the debate that seeks to explain judicial behavior reliant on internal and ideational perspectives. Complementing limited but existing studies of judicial politics in Mexico through its analysis of judges beyond those that sit at the Supreme Court, this book will be of particular interest to Latin-American judicial politics scholars due to its focus on the judicial power from internal perspectives as well as sub-national judges, filling a void in the literature vis-à-vis the study of courts in Latin America. This Work was originally written in Spanish, and the translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Azul A. Aguiar Aguilar is Professor of political science in the Department of Sociopolitical and Legal Studies at ITESO, the Jesuit University of Guadalajara, Mexico. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florence, Italy. She teaches courses of political science, judicial politics and theories of democracy in undergraduate and graduate programs at ITESO and the University of Guadalajara. Her research interests include comparative judicial politics and democratization processes. Professor Aguiar has edited books and published several articles in peer review journals about democracy, courts, and justice-sector institutions. She has been distinguished as a member of the National Researchers System in Mexico.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Legal Culture, Sociopolitical Origins and Professional Careers of Judges in Mexico
Authors: Azul A. Aguiar Aguilar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52909-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52908-5Published: 09 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52911-5Due: 26 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-52909-2Published: 08 April 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 179
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Latin American Culture, Law, general