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Professor Daniel Brinks Publishes Book on Public Law and Latin American Politics
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Assistant Professor Daniel Brinks has published The Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America: Inequality and the Rule of Law from Cambridge University Press.
A study of the legal processes of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, the book documents the corrosive effect of social exclusion on democracy and the rule of law. It shows how marginalization prevents citizens from effectively engaging even the best legal systems, how politics creeps into prosecutorial and judicial decision making, and how institutional change is often nullified by enduring contextual factors. Brinks argues, however, that some institutional arrangements can overcome these impediments.
Brinks received his Ph.D. from Notre Dame University and holds a law degree from the University of Michigan. He teaches courses on public law and Latin American politics.