Speakers: Julio Rios Figueroa, Associate Professor of Law, ITAM; Diego Werneck Arguelhes, Associate Professor of Law, Insper Institute for Education and Research, São Paulo; Lilliam Arrieta, Law professor at the Central American University of El Salvador
Discussant: Gretchen Helmke, Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester
Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Professor of Government, Harvard University

Populist presidents have assaulted (or seriously threatened) judicial independence in much of Latin America in the early twenty-first century. What drives these attacks? How do courts resist them? And why have some judiciaries proven more resilient in the face of populist governments than others?

Presented in collaboration with Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

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