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Innovative Judicial Procedures and Redefinition of the Institutional Role of the Argentine Supreme Court
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2022
Abstract
This article addresses the way in which the Argentine Supreme Court has set out to redefine its own institutional role through its procedures and decisions, since its institutional reform in 2003. It shows that the Court has developed innovative ways of judicial intervention in public policy and rights issues, which include the participation of new kinds of actors and entail an emerging new relationship between the Court and civil society organizations in Argentina. The article argues that this change can be understood as a way for the Court to rebuild its institutional legitimacy, and that the reform is connected to the presence of strong nongovernmental organizations whose claims for a change in the Court's composition and procedures gained momentum in the aftermath of the social and political crisis of 2001-2002 in Argentina.
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Este trabajo analiza el modo en que la Corte Suprema Argentina, a partir de su reforma en 2003, ha comenzado a redefinir su rol institucional a través de sus procedimientos y decisiones. Se muestra cómo la Corte ha desarrollado formas innovadoras de intervención judicial en el área de políticas públicas y derechos, que incluyen la participación de nuevos tipos de actores e implican una redefinición de las relaciones entre la Corte y las organizaciones de la sociedad civil en la Argentina. El trabajo argumenta que estos cambios pueden ser entendidos como un modo para la Corte de reconstruir su legitimidad institucional, y que esto está relacionado con la presencia de prominentes organizaciones no gubernamentales, cuyos reclamos por un cambio en la composición y en los procedimientos de la Corte adquirieron una inusitada relevancia en el contexto posterior a la crisis social y política de 2001-2002 en la Argentina.
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- Copyright © 2012 by the Latin American Studies Association
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I am grateful to Matilde J. Farren, Héctor Fix-Fierro, Daniel Brinks, Juan G. Bertomeu, and Jonathan Miller for their comments and help. I also thank the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and in particular the Institute of Legal Research, for the opportunity to carry out this work.
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