This book traces the legal and historical development of one of the most important aspects of constitutionalism - constitutional adjudication (or "judicial review"), in a country with a longstanding commitment to the rule of law - Costa Rica. "This book reflects a very high level of legal scholarship on Latin American constitutional law and, upon publication, will become the definitive English-language work on Costa Rican constitutionalism." - from the Preface by Professor Keith S. Rosenn, University of Miami School of Law. The purpose of this book is to present a picture of constitutional adjudication in Costa Rica in a way that will be interesting and useful to students of comparative constitutional law, legal and political history, government, and Latin American area studies. The term "constitutional adjudication," as used herein, refers to those processes and procedures by which constitutional questions are presented to and answered by judicial tribunals, and the...