*LAW, *MURDER, *COURTS, *SOCIAL groups, *HUMAN rights
Abstract
This paper examines the effectiveness of the legal system in protecting citizens from arbitrary killing from the state. It presents data on the number of state killings in Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil, and on the judicial response to these killings. The analysis includes a discussion of inequality before the law, and calculates the effect of belonging to a certain disfavored social group on the effectiveness of the rights of members of that group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
*JUDICIAL independence, *JUDICIAL power, *SEPARATION of powers, *POLITICAL autonomy
Abstract
Discusses the institutional arrangements of judicial independence in Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina. Definition and theory of judicial independence; Difference between independence and autonomy; Requirement for independence; Concepts of judicial independence.