Dr. Cordula Tibi Weber

This chapter assesses whether governments’ legal strategies to address the COVID-19 crisis were checked by courts or alternatively court–executive interactions resulted in diminishing court stature and declining democratic standards during the first two years of the pandemic.

Courts are highly relevant in controlling executive abuses of power in exceptional situations like the COVID-19 pandemic. Latin America’s courts were ready and able to set such limits. Illiberal presidents may heavily undermine judicial independence if they have the legislative support to do so.

What is the role of Latin American constitutional and supreme courts in social media? We investigate the accounts of 17 high courts on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook for a one-year-period, distinguishing between two dimensions: intensity of use and influence in each social media.

Organiser: German Association for Asian Studies  Dr. Cordula Tibi Weber (Speaker)

Online lecture at the German Association for Asian Studies

Trust in and between Courts in the Changing World of the 21st Century, Erasmus Law School, Erasmus University, Rotterdam Organisers: Erasmus University Rotterdam Dr. Cordula Tibi Weber (Speaker)

Paper presentation at the Workshop on “Trust in and between courts in the changing world of the 21st century”