About Daniel Brinks

Daniel Brinks is Professor of Government and of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. Until September 2019, he served as co-director of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. Dan's research focuses on the role of the law and courts in supporting and deepening democracy and human rights, with a primary regional interest in Latin America. His most recent book, with Abby Blass, is on the politics of constitutional and judicial design. Other books address the experience with uneven democracies in Latin America, the judicial response to police violence, and the enforcement of social and economic rights in the developing world. He has published articles in the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and the Texas Law Review, among other journals.