Lawfare

In Lawfare: The Criminalization of Democratic Politics in the Global South, Zaffaroni, Caamaño and Vegh Weis offer an account of the misuse of the law to criminalize progressive political leaders in Latin America.

Indeed, more and more popular political leaders in the region are being imprisoned or prosecuted, even while in power. Inacio Lula da Silva is the quintaessential case of this worrying process. Despite the centrality of this juridical-political phenomenon in Latin America, it is little known to the Anglo-Saxon public. This book aims to fill this gap. In an accessible style, the authors deconstruct the legal language and the main problematics of lawfare, drawing attention to the fact that it may end up destroying the rule of law in order to promote the most cruel forms of neoliberalism.

Featuring a foreword by Lula da Silva.

ISBN: 9798888902288

Publication date: May 21, 2024

Foreword to the Spanish Edition  
Lula da Silva

Prologue

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction to the English Version
  Valeria Vegh Weis

1 The Destruction of Criminal Law
  Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni

2 The Destruction of Law of Criminal Procedure
  Cristina Caamaño

3 The Destruction of Criminology
  Valeria Vegh Weis

4 Some Exemplary Lawfare Cases
  Cristina Caamaño, Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni and Valeria Vegh Weis

First Afterword
  Eli Gómez Alcorta

Second Afterword
  Atilio Boron

Index