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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive volume offers fresh insights on Latin American and Caribbean law before European contact, during the colonial and early republican eras and up to the present. It considers the history of legal education, the legal profession, Indigenous legal history, and the legal history concerning Africans and African Americans, other enslaved peoples, women, immigrants, peasants, and workers. This book also examines the various legal frameworks concerning land and other property, commerce and business, labor, crime, marriage, family and domestic conflicts, the church, the welfare state, constitutional law and rights, and legal pluralism. It serves as a current introduction for those new to the field and provides in-depth interpretations, discussions, and bibliographies for those already familiar with the region’s legal history. Contributors are: Diego Acosta, Alejandro Agüero, Sarah C. Chambers, Robert J. Cottrol, Oscar Cruz Barney, Mariana Dias Paes, Tamar Herzog, Marta Lorente Sariñena, M.C. Mirow, Jerome G. Offner, Brian Owensby, Juan Manuel Palacio, Agustín Parise, Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, Heikki Pihlajamäki, Susan Elizabeth Ramírez, Timo H. Schaefer, William Suárez-Potts, Victor M. Uribe-Uran, Cristián Villalonga, Alex Wisnoski, and Eduardo Zimmermann.
Trade ReviewThe press about volume 1 in the series: "[The book] succeeds as an excellent point of entry to what at times can seem like a highly complex subject. [..] [The editors] and their fellow contributors have undoubtedly got the new series off to the strongest possible start." – Warren Swain, The Edinburgh Law Review
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Part 1 Chronology Introduction M.C. Mirow and Victor M. Uribe-Uran 1 Law Before European Contact: Mesoamerica Jerome A. Offner 2 The Sun’s Mandates: Customary Law in the Andes Susan Elizabeth Ramírez 3 Law in Spanish and Portuguese America: the Early Colonial Period Heikki Pihlajamäki 4 From Justice to Law: Late Colonial and Early Republican Eras Sarah C. Chambers 5 Liberalism Timo H. Schaefer 6 Enacting Legal Reforms, Reshaping Modern Societies: the Transformation of Latin American Law from 1930 to the Present Cristián Villalonga Part 2 Historical Actors 7 Legal Education and the Legal Profession Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo 8 The Panorama of Indigenous Legal History Brian P. Owensby 9 Africans and Afro-Americans Robert J. Cottrol 10 Enslaved Humans Mariana Dias Paes 11 Women Alex Wisnoski 12 Immigrants and Outsiders Diego Acosta 13 Peasants and Workers William Suárez-Potts Part 3 Selected Topics 14 Land and Other Property Agustín Parise 15 Commercial Law, Business, and Commerce Óscar Cruz Barney 16 Law and Labor Rights Juan Manuel Palacio 17 Criminal Law Alejandro Agüero 18 Filiation, Marriage, Family, and Domestic Conflicts Victor M. Uribe-Uran 19 The Church M.C. Mirow 20 The Welfare State Eduardo Zimmermann 21 Constitutions, Rights, and Government Marta Lorente Sariñena 22 Legal Pluralism Tamar Herzog Index
