A Companion to Latin American Legal History / / edited by Mirow, Matthew C and Uribe Urán, Victor.

• Superior document: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024
• TeilnehmendeR: Mirow, Matthew C.,; Uribe Urán, Victor,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.; Legal History Library ; 64.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (560 pages) :; illustrations.

This 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.

Table of Contents

Law before European contact : Mesoamerica / Jerome A. Offner -- The Sun's mandates : customary law in the Andes / Susan Elizabeth Ramírez -- Law in Spanish and Portuguese America : the early Colonial period / Heikki Pihlajamäki -- From justice to law : Late Colonial and early republican eras / Sarah C. Chambers -- Liberalism / Timo H. Schaefer -- Enacting legal reforms, reshaping modern societies : the transformation of Latin American law from 1930 to the present / Cristián Villalonga -- Legal education and the legal profession / Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo -- The panorama of indigenous legal history / Brian P. Owensby -- Africans and Afro-Americans / Robert J. Cottrol -- Enslaved humans / Mariana Dias Paes -- Women / Alex Wisnoski -- Immigrants and outsiders / Diego Acosta -- Peasants and workers / William Suárez-Potts -- Land and other property / Agustín Parise -- Commercial law, business, and commerce / Óscar Cruz Barney -- Law and labor rights / Juan Manuel Palacio -- Criminal law / Alejandro Agüero -- Filiation, marriage, family, and domestic conflicts / Victor M. Uribe-Uran -- The church / M.C. Mirow -- The welfare state / Eduardo Zimmermann -- Constitutions, rights, and government / Marta Lorente Sariñena -- Legal pluralism / Tamar Herzog.