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Hilbink (2007), “Politicising Law to Liberalise Politics: Anti-Francoist Judges and Prosecutors in Spain’s Democratic Transition”

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Lisa Hilbink. “Politicising Law to Liberalise Politics: Anti-Francoist Judges and Prosecutors in Spain’s Democratic Transition.” In Fighting for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Liberalism. Edited by Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik, and Malcolm M. Feeley, pp. 403-438, Oxford, U.K: Hart Publishing, 2007. This chapter examines the role of anti-Francoist judges …

Hilbink (2021), “Constitutional Rewrite in Chile: Moving toward a Social and Democratic Rule of Law?”

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Lisa Hilbink, “Constitutional Rewrite in Chile: Moving toward a Social and Democratic Rule of Law?” Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, vol. 13, no. 2 (2021): 223-234.  Summary: Chile has often drawn the global spotlight, serving as a laboratory for some of the most dramatic political experiments of the past fifty-plus years. Popular discontent with …

Hilbink, Ingram (2019), “Courts and Rule of Law in Developing Countries.”

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Lisa Hilbink and Matthew C. Ingram, “Courts and Rule of Law in Developing Countries.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (23 May 2019). Summary: Under what conditions can courts be effective and the rule of law be meaningful in developing countries? The great variation within and between the vast category of developing countries greatly complicates the …

Hilbink (2007), “Judges beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile,”

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Lisa Hilbink, Judges beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Summary: Why did formerly independent Chilean judges, trained under and appointed by democratic governments, facilitate and condone the illiberal, antidemocratic, and anti-legal policies of the Pinochet regime? Challenging the assumption that adjudication in non-democratic settings is fundamentally different and …