Roberto Gargarella

Roberto Gargarella is Professor of Law at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and visiting Professor at the UCL Institute of the Americas. He is the author of Latin American Constitutionalism (1810-2010): The Engine Room of the Constitution (Oxford University Press 2013)

Rights and power: illiberal constitutions of Latin America

Latin American constitutions are exemplary in going beyond liberalism in the way they formulate human rights. But they are at the same time illiberal in the powers they afford the executive to limit political freedoms.

By Roberto Gargarella

/ 14 Aug 2014