Javier A. Couso is a Professor of Law at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile. In 2006 7, Couso was the Tinker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Madison. His work focuses on the study of Chilean and Latin American constitutional law and processes of judicialization of politics in the region. He has published extensively on such matters, in journals such as Democratization; Verfassung und Recht in Ubersee (VRU) (Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America); Griffith Law Review; and the Revista de Ciencia Politica. He has also contributed chapte...