Daniel M. Brinks
Associate Professor of Political Science
(PhD University of Notre Dame, 2004)
433 Decio
574-631-3807
email: dbrinks@nd.edu
Geographic focus: Latin America
Thematic interests: Law and politics; democracy; rights and justice; judicial politics and judicial institutions
Current research: New developments in the rule of law in Latin America; institutional design and judicial power; the judicial enforcement of social and economic rights in the developing world
Selected publications: The Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America: Inequality and the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008); Courting Social Justice: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World (Cambridge University Press, 2008)(with V. Gauri, editors); "Diffusion Is No Illusion: Neighbor Emulation in the Third Wave of Democracy," Comparative Political Studies (2006) (with M. Coppedge); "Judicial Reform and Independence in Brazil and Argentina: The Beginning of a New Millennium?" Texas International Law Journal (2005); "Informal Institutions and the Rule of Law: The Judicial Response to State Killings in Buenos Aires and São Paulo in the 1990s" Comparative Politics (2003).
