Wiki schedule Day Student Topic and readings assigned
Except for the first 4, the postings should be up by class time, so we can talk about them. You will be expected to briefly introduce and explain your post at the beginning of class. When a post covers two readings, it is due on class day before we discuss the first of the two. Fri 1 Salensky SECTION 1: DEFINITIONS OF DEMOCRACY, OVERVIEW OF DEMOCRACY AND LAW Mainwaring et al, Classifying Regimes in Latin America (25 p.) 2 Vo O‟Donnell, A Look at the State and some Conceptual Problems (from Counterpoints, 20 p.)
Mon Tu
3 Rights Development in LA Maldonado Oxhorn, “Social Inequality, Civil Society, and the Limits of Citizenship in Latin America” (25 pp.); Terri Karl, “The Vicious Cycle of Inequality in Latin America” (20 pp.). 4 Cook SECTION 2: AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES AND THE TRANSITION Rights and courts under authoritarian regimes Lisa Hilbink, the Chilean courts under Pinochet (and before and after) (25 pp).
Wed
Th Fri
5 Fonseca This post should analyze and compare the movies
Movie: “City of God” (130 min) Movie: “Missing” with Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek (123 min). As you watch the movies, think about the way law is experienced and works under authoritarianism (in “Missing”) and under unequal democracies (in “City of God”). Be sure to use concepts and terms from the readings.
Mon
6 Worley Transitions to democracy and the role of the law; what happened after the transitions? Argentina (incomplete prosecutions): Acuña and Smulovitz, in McAdams
Tu Wed
7 Fried
Guatemala (Truth Commission): Seils, The Role of Intelligent Justice
8 Lynch TEST 1 Legacies of the abuses: Children of the disappeared Instead of reading, view the movie “The Official Story” (112 min.). There (the will be an in-class exercise based on the movie, so be sure you‟ve had a posting is chance to watch it before class. for Oren
Thu
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Laura Oren, “Righting Child Custody Wrongs: The Children of the “Disappeared” in Argentina,” Harvard Human Rights Journal (60 pp, but lots of footnotes which you can ignore) Law in Democracy: Where it works, and where it doesn’t Corruption: Theory and a case study of Argentina and Brazil Manzetti from Tulchin and Espach, eds.
Fri
9 Cruz
Mon
10 Cho
Fighting corruption: Sadek and Batista Cavalcanti, “The New Brazilian Public Prosecution: An Agent of Accountability” (25 pp).
Tu
11 Crime and punishment: Williams Crime: and politics: Ruth Stanley‟s “Law and Order” chapter on political construction of crime in BsAs
Wed Thu
Ybarra
and Punishment: Ungar, Prisons and Politics in Latin America (Recommended film: Carandiru)
12 Continuing Human Rights abuses: Levinsohn Police homicides: Holston and Caldeira, Disjunctive Citizenship (also review the course website for additional information on the judicial response to police violence) 13 Ethun TEST 2 Begin work on your final assignment: What would you propose, to solve the problems we have identified? Your proposal should be about two pages long, present a brief overview of what you believe the main challenges to the rule of law are, and then make specific suggestions for solving at least one of them. You will present the proposal in class at the end of the session. Indigenous peoples and the legal response: Van Cott, Dispensing justice at the margins of formality
Fri
Mon
14 Smith The excesses of informal justice: "Popular Justice" or "Lynching" Washington Post Article and letter to the editor Angelina Godoy, When „Justice‟ is Criminal: Lynchings in Contemporary Latin America (unpublished) (25 pp) 15 SECTION 4: CONSEQUENCES FOR DEMOCRACY Sovelius Loss of confidence in democratic representatives: Mainwaring (Journal of Democracy) on state failures and crisis of democracy
Tu
Wed
16 SECTION 5: DEALING WITH THE PROBLEM Kazmierski (access to Access to Justice: Garro, on the poor and access to justice (14 pp.) justice, Reform the Courts: including reflection Prillaman. 2000. The Judiciary and Democratic Decay in Latin America, ch.2 & chapter on Chile on indigenous systems) 17 Brewer Another case study: Prillaman, on Argentina, and Chapter 7. Intro and conclusion to Prillaman 19 Escobar add to the posting by discussing the Chilean reform, from Prillaman
Thu
Fri
18 Yentzen Popular mobilization: Societal accountability, Smulovitz and Peruzzoti in Mainwaring and Welna (20 pp.) DELETED SECTION 6: CONCLUSIONS G. O‟Donnell: Conclusion: The (Un)Rule of Law (25 pp.)
Mon