Daniel Brinks
Associate Professor,
Department of Political Science
Degrees
A.B., Calvin College; J.D., University of Michigan Law School; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Research Profile
Dan Brinks is Associate Professor of Political Science, specializing in Comparative Politics and Public Law. Dan's research focuses on the role of the law and courts in guaranteeing democratic and constitutional rights, with a primary regional interest in Latin America. His most recent projects address the courts’ response to police violence, the judicial enforcement of social and economic rights, judicial independence, and the role of informal norms in the legal order. He has also written on the classification of regimes in Latin America, and on the global diffusion of democracy. His research appears in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies and the Texas International Law Journal. He recently published The Judicial Response to Police Violence in Latin America: Inequality and the Rule of Law and Courting Social Justice, a volume co-edited with Varun Gauri on the enforcement of the rights to health care and education in the developing world, both with Cambridge University Press.Contact Information
433 Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-3807
dbrinks@nd.edu
Curriculum Vitae