Secretarios de Estudio y Cuenta en la Suprema Corte de México: un actor esencial pero olvidado - Mexican Supreme Court’s Clerks: Essential but Forgotten Actors
Keywords:
jueces, cortes, Suprema Corte de Justicia en México, secretarios de estudio y cuentaAbstract
La trascendencia de los colaboradores de los jueces constitucionales en la construcción de las sentencias judiciales se ha comprobado en la investigación en un modelo anglosajón como el de Estados Unidos; sin embargo, se conoce menos sobre el perfil y la influencia de los secretarios de Estudio y Cuenta o letrados en las cortes de América Latina. Este trabajo construye una propuesta teórica sobre el papel de los colaboradores de los jueces en las cortes supremas: incorporan distintas miradas a los problemas jurídicos, reducen costos de aprendiza- je de las rutinas de las cortes y son fuentes de información que permiten difundir nuevas ideas jurídicas. A partir de una base de datos original sobre las características de 117 abogados que trabajan en la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN) en México, se presenta una exploración sobre su perfil profesional, los mecanismos de reclutamiento y sus funciones.
The impact of the constitutional judges’ clerks in the construction of judicial sentences has been widely studied by the Anglo-Saxon literature. However, less is known about the profile and influence of the clerks in the Latin American Courts. This work builds a theoretical proposal on the role of the judges’ collabora- tors in the Supreme Courts: they incorporate different perspectives on legal problems, reduce the learning costs of court’s routines and they are sources of information that allow the dissemination of new legal ideas. From an original database on the features of 117 lawyers working in the Supreme Court of Justice (scjn) in Mexico, an exploration of the professional profile and recruitment mechanisms is presented.
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