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"As the climate crisis intensifies and becomes acutely visible, promising responses have been developed by scientists, advocates, and scholars around the world. Mobilizations such as #FridaysforFuture and Extinction Rebellion are converging with Indigenous peoples' movements and other social justice movements to convey the urgency and the scale needed for climate action. Reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, informed by developments in attribution science, establish more precise links between greenhouse gas emissions, extreme weather events, and human impacts. In the meantime, collaborations between scientists and journalists have drawn the broader public's attention to detailed information about the magnitude of planet-warming emissions associated with the activities of major fossil fuel companies"--

The regulation of business in the global economy poses one of the main challenges for governance, as illustrated by the dynamic scholarly and policy debates about the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and a possible international treaty on the matter. This book takes on the conceptual and legal underpinnings of global governance approaches to business and human rights, with an emphasis on the Guiding Principles (GPs) and attention to the current treaty process. Analyses of the GPs have tended to focus on their static dimension, such as the standards they include, rather than on their capacity to change, to push the development of new norms, and practices that might go beyond the initial content of the GPs and improve corporate compliance with human rights. This book engages both the static and dynamic dimensions of the GPs, and considers the issue through the eyes of scholars and practitioners from different parts of the world

"Over the past two decades, legal thought and practice in Latin America has changed dramatically : new constitutions or constitutional reforms have marked a widespread transition to democracy, fundamental institutional innovations have been introduced, and processes of globalization have had profound impacts on Latin American law. Law and Society in Latin America offers the first systematic assessment by leading Latin American legal scholars of the momentous legal and political transformations in the region. Together with the liberalization of national economies, there has been an intensive importation of legal ideas and institutions, from the commercial and financial regulations promoted by the World Bank and World Trade Organization, to the adversarial criminal justice system inspired by the United States. Meanwhile, the globalization of human rights has had a fundamental impact - as demonstrated by the multiplication of laws, institutions, and public debates about the rights of groups that historically faced discrimination, and about the punishment of serious human rights violations committed by past or present authoritarian governments. These and other processes have not only radically altered the institutional landscape of the region, but also produced academic and practical innovations that are of global interest"--

Since the nineties decade Latin America saw important transformations of the judicial system, accompanied of a strengthening of the state of right. Since more than a lustrum this subject has been object of analysis by social investigators, nevertheless many of this investigations have forgotten the historic and politic background of these reforms. From a geographic analysis that allows to establish a comparative regional frame, and retaking the historic background that since the sixties were presented around the juridical systems, the article presents the main changes in the judicial reform in Colombia and Latin America. ; Desde la década de 1990 América Latina presenció importantes transformaciones del sistema judicial, acompañados del fortalecimiento del Estado de derecho, temas que desde hace más de un lustro son materia de análisis por parte de investigadores sociales, sin embargo, muchas de estas investigaciones desconocen los antecedentes históricos y políticos de estas reformas. Desde un análisis geográfico que permite establecer un marco comparativo regional y retomando los antecedentes históricos que desde la década de 1960 se presentaron alrededor del los sistemas jurídicos, el texto presenta los principales cambios de la reforma judicial en Colombia y América Latina.

Public sociologists' deep engagement with non-academic publics tends to give research findings greater empirical accuracy, relevance and influence, as well as provide a powerful source of motivation. However, it also creates constant risks of dispersion, loss of independence, lack of analytical distance and burnout. Based on the author's experience with research and advocacy about socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America, this article dwells on these opportunities and risks. To take advantage of the former and tackle the latter, it makes a case for 'amphibious sociology,' an approach that embraces hybrid styles of writing and uses advances in multimedia technology to engage several audiences, while keeping the enterprise of public sociology afloat.