Cesar Rodríguez-Garavito is an associate professor and founding director of the Program on Global Justice and Human Rights at the University of the Andes, Colombia, and a founding member of the Center for Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia). He is the author of numerous articles and co-editor of several books including Law and Society in Latin America (2015), Balancing Wealth and Health (2014) and Law and Globalization from Below (2005). Diana Rodríguez-Franco is a PhD candidate in sociology at Northwestern University, Illinois and an affiliate researcher at the Center for Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia). Her research focuses on the political economy of development, comparative environmental politics, sociology of law, and human rights. She is the author of several articles including 'Dependency Theory' (forthcoming, with James Mahoney) and 'Globalizing Intellectual Property Rights: The Politics of Law and Public Health'.

• Part I. Studying Impact: Activist Courts Addressing Radical Deprivation: 1. The impact of judicial activism on socioeconomic rights in the Global South: an analytical framework; 2. The case study: forced internal displacement and the intervention of the Colombian Constitutional Court; Part II. Direct, Indirect, Material, and Symbolic Effects: 3. The unlocking effect: judicial prodding and streamlining the government bureaucracy; 4. The policy effect: design and evaluation of public policies through judicial incentives; 5. The participatory effect: dialogic judicial activism, public deliberation, and problem solving; 6. The reframing effect: forced displacement as a human rights problem; 7. The socioeconomic effect: the impact on the situation of internally displaced persons; Part III. Dialogic Judicial Activism in Comparative Perspective: 8. Explaining impact in comparative constitutionalism: an empirical case for dialogic judicial activism; 9. Conclusions: comparative constitutionalism as institutional imagination.

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