{"product_id":"a-companion-to-latin-american-legal-history-9789004370203","title":"A Companion to Latin American Legal History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210752844119,"sku":"9789004370203","price":153.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-latin-american-legal-history-9789004370203","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}