Second only to watching the proceedings in person or perhaps seeing them on television, listening to the Supreme Court justices argue and debate about a case was an informative and unique experience. Although I was aware of how the court system worked before listening to this proceeding, I was unaw...

The advent of Venezuela’s constituent assembly of 1999, and with it, a new Constitution, with a whole new organization of the different branches of government, has drawn to public attention the preponderance of the political power that one particular branch –the Judiciary- had attained with this...