Faculty

Brinks, Daniel
Assistant Professor

Office: MEZ 3.128
Phone: 512-232-1445
danbrinks@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Professor Brinks has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

Research interests:
Daniel Brinks is Assistant Professor of Government, in the fields of Comparative Politics and Public Law. Dan's research focuses on the role of the law and courts in supporting or extending the rights associated with democracy, with a primary regional interest in Latin America. His most recent projects address the judicial response to police violence in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, the use of courts and law to enforce social and economic rights in the developing world, judicial independence, and the role of informal norms in the legal order. He is also interested in the study of democracy more generally, and has written on the classification of regimes in Latin America, and on the global diffusion of democracy in the last quarter of a century. His research draws on his personal experience, as he was born and raised in Argentina and practiced law in the United States for nearly ten years before returning to academia.

Courses taught: He teaches courses in Comparative Politics, Comparative Judicial Politics, Democracy and Democratization, and Latin American Politics.

Field(s) of Study: Comparative Politics; Public Law

Recent Publications:
He has published articles in journals such as Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Comparative Political Studies and the Texas International Law Journal. His book The Judicial Response to Police Violence in Latin America: Inequality and the Rule of Law has just been published by Cambridge University Press.