Cristián Villalonga Torrijo
Biographic Data
| ID | 6544195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristián Villalonga Torrijo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristián Villalonga |
| FAMILY NAME | Torrijo |
| SIGNATURE | TORRIJO C V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5018-861X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Justice by Templates
For about twenty years, Chilean high courts have issued myriad standardized rulings against the annual price-fixing adjustments in private health insurance contracts, intervening in health policy and propelling the emergence of a buoyant litigation industry by awarding attorneys’ fees to claimants. In deciding thousands of cases almost identically in protecting fundamental rights, particularly those involving private property, courts overrode leg…
Redrafting imperfect legislation
Structural judgments regarding socioeconomic rights and the judicial oversight of their enforcement are two phenomena that have recently characterized Latin American public law. This paper examines how these phenomena of judicial behaviour respond to certain deficiencies in legislation (e.g., incomplete law and legislative stalemate). Suboptimal legislation usually indicates that political actors cannot impose their preferences or reach satisfact…
Dwindling Professional Authority
The prominence of lawyers in the politics of modern state building has been recognized in both historical and theoretical scholarship. In Latin America, however, legal professionals were largely displaced from public governance by the mid-twentieth century. Using Chile as a case study, I argue that, beginning in the 1930s, the rise of the administrative state diminished the authority of elite lawyers who previously enjoyed a quasi-monopoly on sta…
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Dwindling Professional Authority
The prominence of lawyers in the politics of modern state building has been recognized in both historical and theoretical scholarship. In Latin America, however, legal professionals were largely displaced from public governance by the mid-twentieth century. Using Chile as a case study, I argue that, beginning in the 1930s, the rise of the administrative state diminished the authority of elite lawyers who previously enjoyed a quasi-monopoly on sta…
Redrafting imperfect legislation
Structural judgments regarding socioeconomic rights and the judicial oversight of their enforcement are two phenomena that have recently characterized Latin American public law. This paper examines how these phenomena of judicial behaviour respond to certain deficiencies in legislation (e.g., incomplete law and legislative stalemate). Suboptimal legislation usually indicates that political actors cannot impose their preferences or reach satisfact…
Justice by Templates
For about twenty years, Chilean high courts have issued myriad standardized rulings against the annual price-fixing adjustments in private health insurance contracts, intervening in health policy and propelling the emergence of a buoyant litigation industry by awarding attorneys’ fees to claimants. In deciding thousands of cases almost identically in protecting fundamental rights, particularly those involving private property, courts overrode leg…
Judicial and Constitutional Studies (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · attorney fees (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies (1 work) · Corporate governance (1 work) · Divergence (linguistics (1 work) · Economics (1 work)