Informal regulatory practices and access to justice in Latin America

Abstract

Access to justice in Latin America is a concern of legal science as a whole and of its leading practitioners, constitutional judges; this situation of court congestion and no coverage for resolving individual and social conflicts that on a daily basis are in the region have proposed options to expand access among these possibilities are informal regulatory practices as alternative mechanisms of conflict resolution from the United States and European development alternative law, although in certain circumstances, time and space, these proposals have minimized this problem in some states by contrast, has sharpened and other remains static, reproducing the social and legal stratification that would correspond to socioeconomic stratification.