Así funciona la Justicia

How do you become a judge? Are the judges as we think? Are you personally affected by the impact of your decisions on the lives of citizens? To what extent are they politicized? Who judges the judges? Do the judges rule the courts? Is there really a patriarchal justice in our country? Magistrate Natalia Velilla answers these and many other questions in How Justice works, where she narrates in detail the reality of daily work in the courts, from a critical but humane and empathetic vision, mixing expert reflection with dissemination, ideas and rules with anecdotes and circumstances experienced firsthand. In these troubled times, where it has become so common for the news and the front pages of newspapers to open with news from courts and media trials, trust in Justice is not going through its best moment. The shadow of politicization of judges and prosecutors, the feeling that we are not all equal before the law and other deep-rooted prejudices among a large part of the citizenry are a breeding ground for detachment and mistrust. But this situation is, to a large extent, a consequence of the ignorance of the third power of the State, the most unknown and yet the one that constitutes the last bastion of defense of our rights as individuals and citizens. With this book, based on rigorous and first-hand sources, Velilla sheds light on the administration of justice in general and on judges in particular. A book more necessary than ever, an essential reading today.