Latin American Lawyers

Author : Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 0804767696

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Latin American Lawyers by Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive history of the intellectual training and social placement of lawyers in Latin America. Pérez-Perdomo examines the Roman legal roots of the Latin American tradition and traces the development of legal education and practice in Latin America from the 16th century to the present. The main themes in the book are the relationship between lawyers and power, the place of lawyers in social stratification, the role of law and lawyers in building nations and maintaining elite power, the role of law schools, and the main intellectual trends in legal thought.

Author : Manuel Gómez,Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319654034

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Big Law in Latin America and Spain by Manuel Gómez,Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo Pdf

This book, part of the Stanford Law School research project on the future of the legal profession, thoroughly examines the future of “big law,” defined as the large and mid-size multiservice highly specialized law firms that provide sophisticated, complex and generally costly legal work to multinationals, large and mid-size domestic corporations, and other business clients. By systematically gathering, assessing, and analyzing the best available quantitative and qualitative data on the first tier of the corporate legal services market of Latin America and Spain, and interviewing a broadly representative sample of corporate legal officers, law firm partners, and other stakeholders in each of the countries covered, this book provides a nuanced perspective on changes in “big law” during the last two decades until the present. It also explores the factors that are driving these changes, and the implications for the future of legal profession, legal education and its relationship with the corporate sector and society in general.

Author : James A. Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Law
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173025274714

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Legal Imperialism by James A. Gardner Pdf

Author : M.C. Mirow,Rafael Domingo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000347876

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Law and Christianity in Latin America by M.C. Mirow,Rafael Domingo Pdf

This volume examines the lives of more than thirty-five key personalities in Latin American law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law in their countries and the region. The book is a significant contribution to our ability to understand the work and perspectives of jurists and their effect on legal development in Latin America. The individuals selected for study exhibit wide-ranging areas of expertise from private law and codification, through national public law and constitutional law, to international developments that left their mark on the region and the world. The chapters discuss the jurists within their historical, intellectual, and political context. The editors selected jurists after extensive consultation with legal historians in various countries of the region looking at the jurist’s particular merits, contributions to law in general, religious perspective, and importance within the specific country and period under consideration. Giving the work a diversity of international and methodological perspectives, the chapters have been written by distinguished legal scholars and historians from Latin America and around the world. The collection will appeal to scholars, lawyers, and students interested in the interplay between law and religion. Political, social, legal, and religious historians among other readers will find, for the first time in English, authoritative treatments of the region’s essential legal thinkers and authors. Students and other who may not read Spanish will appreciate these clear, accessible, and engaging English studies of the region’s great jurists.

Author : Yves Dezalay,Bryant G. Garth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226144276

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The Internationalization of Palace Wars by Yves Dezalay,Bryant G. Garth Pdf

How does globalization work? Focusing on Latin America, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth show that exports of expertise and ideals from the United States to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico have played a crucial role in transforming their state forms and economies since World War II. Based on more than 300 extensive interviews with major players in governments, foundations, law firms, universities, and think tanks, Dezalay and Garth examine both the production of northern exports such as neoliberal economics and international human rights law and the ways they are received south of the United States. They find that the content of what is exported and how it fares are profoundly shaped by domestic struggles for power and influence—"palace wars"—in the nations involved. For instance, challenges to the eastern intellectual establishment influenced the Reagan-era export of University of Chicago-style neoliberal economics to Chile, where it enjoyed a warm reception from Pinochet and his allies because they could use it to discredit the previous regime. Innovative and sophisticated, The Internationalization of Palace Wars offers much needed concrete information about the transnational processes that shape our world.

Author : Ángel R. Oquendo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Civil law
ISBN : 1634599047

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Latin American Law by Ángel R. Oquendo Pdf

"This casebook...compares the law of Latin America to that of Europe, as well as the United States while introducing students to the richness and diversity of the Latin American legal tradition through cases, legal documents, and commentaries. This...book allows students to see the law in action and guides them through entire judicial decisions, demonstrating how litigation unfolds and how a different legal culture operates. It is currently the only cases and materials publication devoted to Latin American law and the issues that arise in concrete litigation south of the border."--

Author : M. C. Mirow
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780292778580

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Latin American Law by M. C. Mirow Pdf

Private law touches every aspect of people's daily lives—landholding, inheritance, private property, marriage and family relations, contracts, employment, and business dealings—and the court records and legal documents produced under private law are a rich source of information for anyone researching social, political, economic, or environmental history. But to utilize these records fully, researchers need a fundamental understanding of how private law and legal institutions functioned in the place and time period under study. This book offers the first comprehensive introduction in either English or Spanish to private law in Spanish Latin America from the colonial period to the present. M. C. Mirow organizes the book into three substantial sections that describe private law and legal institutions in the colonial period, the independence era and nineteenth century, and the twentieth century. Each section begins with an introduction to the nature and function of private law during the period and discusses such topics as legal education and lawyers, legal sources, courts, land, inheritance, commercial law, family law, and personal status. Each section also presents themes of special interest during its respective time period, including slavery, Indian status, codification, land reform, and development and globalization.

Author : Nicholas Bruch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1783581638

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Unlocking Latin America: Opportunities and Risks in a Developing Legal Market by Nicholas Bruch Pdf

Author : Pedro Fortes,Larissa Boratti,Andrés Palacios Lleras,Tom Gerald Daly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137566942

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Law and Policy in Latin America by Pedro Fortes,Larissa Boratti,Andrés Palacios Lleras,Tom Gerald Daly Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to law and policy responses to contemporary problems in Latin America, such as human rights violations, regulatory dilemmas, economic inequality, and access to knowledge and medicine. It includes 19 chapters written by sociologists, lawyers, and political scientists on the transformations of courts, institutions and rights protection in Latin America, all of which stem from presentations at conferences in Oxford and UCL organised by the editors. The contributors present original analyses based on rigorous research, innovative case-studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives, all written in an accessible style. Topics include the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, institutional design, financial regulation, competition, discrimination, gender quotas, police violence, orphan works, healthcare, and environmental protection, among others. The book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in policymaking, public law, and development.

Author : Lawrence Friedman,Rogelio Perez-Perdomo
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780804766951

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Legal Culture in the Age of Globalization by Lawrence Friedman,Rogelio Perez-Perdomo Pdf

This volume of essays examines how the legal systems of the chief countries of Latin America and Mediterranean Europe—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, France, Italy, and Spain—changed in the last quarter of the 20th century. Through essays that provide a wealth of data on the courts and the legal profession in these countries, the book attempts to relate changes in the operation of the legal systems to changes in the political and social history of the societies in which they are embedded. The details vary, in accordance with the particular history and structure of the countries, but there are also key commonalities that run through all of the stories: democratization, globalization, and changes in the legal order that seem to be worldwide; more power to courts; a growing legal profession; and the entry of women into what was once a masculine club.

Author : Ezequiel A. Gonzáles-Ocantos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : LAW
ISBN : 1316725715

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Shifting Legal Visions by Ezequiel A. Gonzáles-Ocantos Pdf

In-depth study of processes of judicial transformation that enabled the success of human rights trials in Latin America.

Author : Rodrigo Momberg,Stefan Vogenauer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509914265

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The Future of Contract Law in Latin America by Rodrigo Momberg,Stefan Vogenauer Pdf

This book presents, analyses and evaluates the Principles of Latin American Contract Law (PLACL), a recent set of provisions aiming at the harmonisation of contract law at a regional level. As such, the PLACL are the most recent exponent of the many proposals for transnational sets of 'principles of contract law' that were drafted or published over the past 20 years, either at the global or the regional level. These include the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, the Principles of European Contract Law, the (European) Draft Common Frame of Reference and the Principles of Asian Contract Law. The PLACL are the product of a working group comprising legal academics from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. The 111 articles of the instrument deal with problems of general contract law, such as formation, interpretation and performance of contracts, as well as remedies for breach. The book aims to introduce the PLACL to an international audience by putting them in their historical and comparative context, including other transnational harmonisation measures and initiatives. The contributions are authored by drafters of the PLACL and contract law experts from Europe and Latin America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004436091

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A Companion to Latin American Legal History by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Ezequiel A. González-Ocantos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107145238

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Shifting Legal Visions by Ezequiel A. González-Ocantos Pdf

An in-depth study of processes of judicial transformation that enabled the success of human rights trials in Latin America.

Author : Toribio Esquivel Obregón
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 0332216438

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Latin-American Commercial Law (Classic Reprint) by Toribio Esquivel Obregón Pdf

Excerpt from Latin-American Commercial Law My purpose, however, is also to satisfy a practical need of lawyers and business men. Of all branches of private law throughout the world, the law of trade and commerce is perhaps more nearly uniform in its provisions than any other. And yet, to the lawyer trained in the system of the common law, the commercial law in the civil law countries presents difficulties and peculiarities, partly by reason of its character as a distinct branch of private law, and partly by reason of its civil law origin and influence. This need of the lawyer, and the practical need of the business man for a descriptive and interpretative work I have sought to meet. A glossary of Spanish legal terms has been added. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.