Book contents
- The Social Constitution
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- The Social Constitution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO Constitutional Embedding through Legal Mobilization
- CHAPTER THREE Expectations and Transformations of Colombian Constitutional Law
- CHAPTER FOUR Social Embedding
- CHAPTER FIVE Legal Embedding
- CHAPTER SIX Challenges to Embedding
- CHAPTER SEVEN Challenges to Embedding
- CHAPTER EIGHT Challenges to Embedding
- CHAPTER NINE Partial Constitutional Embedding
- CHAPTER TEN Conclusion
- Appendix: Interviewees
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
CHAPTER FIVE - Legal Embedding
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 June 2023
- The Social Constitution
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- The Social Constitution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO Constitutional Embedding through Legal Mobilization
- CHAPTER THREE Expectations and Transformations of Colombian Constitutional Law
- CHAPTER FOUR Social Embedding
- CHAPTER FIVE Legal Embedding
- CHAPTER SIX Challenges to Embedding
- CHAPTER SEVEN Challenges to Embedding
- CHAPTER EIGHT Challenges to Embedding
- CHAPTER NINE Partial Constitutional Embedding
- CHAPTER TEN Conclusion
- Appendix: Interviewees
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Summary
Chapter 5 explores legal embedding in Colombia. It tracks why and how Colombian judges – both at the Constitutional Court level and the lower court level – came to be receptive to the new constitutional order, especially claims through the tutela procedure, even when those claims appeared to be beyond its formal scope. The combination of repeated exposure to particular kinds of legal claims in the formal legal sphere and exposure to the problems those claims implicate in everyday life seems to drive judicial receptivity. Judges are particularly receptive to claims when they interpret them as consonant with contemporary socio-legal values.
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- The Social ConstitutionEmbedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization, pp. 96 - 120Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023