(Un)Rule of Law and the Underprivileged in Latin America (Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies)

by Guillermo O'Donnell (Editor), Guillermo A. O'Donnell (Author), Juan E. Mendez (Author), Paulo Sergio Pinheiro (Author), Juan Mendez (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $145.04

  This study describes a Latin American legal system which punishes only the poor and a democratic state which fails to control its own agents' arbitrary practices. The contributors argue that judicial reform cannot be seperated from human rights and that justice must be made available to the poor.