Access-to-Justice Reforms: A Brazilian Case Study of Bank Litigation Related to Heterodox Economic Plans

Q2 Social Sciences

Global Jurist Pub Date : 2020-07-27 DOI:10.1515/gj-2020-0018

Helena C. Refosco

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Abstract

Abstract Between 2003 and 2016, Brazil carried out a World Bank-inspired “rule-of-law” reform that has failed to substantially increase access to justice. To buttress such a disheartening conclusion, this paper includes a case study of Brazil’s biggest litigation ever, which centered on the losses that bank customers had incurred because of heterodox national economic plans implemented in the late 1980s and early 1990s. By showing that the system of binding precedents consolidated in the reform ended up favoring “repeat players” over “one-shotters” in this litigation, this paper seeks to explain how institutional reforms that fail to tackle deep inequalities may backfire.

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诉诸司法改革：巴西与异质经济计划相关的银行诉讼案例研究

摘要2003年至2016年间，巴西实施了一项受世界银行启发的“法治”改革，但未能大幅增加诉诸司法的机会。为了支持这样一个令人沮丧的结论，本文对巴西有史以来最大的诉讼进行了案例研究，该诉讼集中在银行客户因20世纪80年代末和90年代初实施的非正统国家经济计划而遭受的损失上。通过表明改革中巩固的具有约束力的先例体系最终在这场诉讼中偏袒“重复参与者”而非“一次性参与者”，本文试图解释未能解决深层次不平等问题的制度改革可能会适得其反。

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Global Jurist Social Sciences-Law

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