Law And Development In Latin America

Author : Kenneth L Karst,Kenneth L. Karst,Keith S. Rosenn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0520029550

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Law and Development in Latin America by Kenneth L Karst,Kenneth L. Karst,Keith S. Rosenn Pdf

Textbook on law and jurisprudence in Latin America, including an interdisciplinary research analysis of the legal aspects of economic development - covers land reform, commercial law responses to inflation, the role of the courts, etc., includes a case study of legal institutional frameworks in the caracas urban area slums in Venezuela, and provides historical background. References.

Author : Cesar Rodriguez Garavito
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136002403

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Law and Society in Latin America by Cesar Rodriguez Garavito Pdf

Over the past two decades, legal thought and practice in Latin America have changed dramatically: new constitutions or constitutional reforms have consolidated democratic rule, fundamental innovations have been introduced in state institutions, social movements have turned to law to advance their causes, and processes of globalization have had profound effects on legal norms and practices. Law and Society in Latin America: A New Map offers the first systematic assessment by leading Latin American socio-legal scholars of the momentous transformations in the region. Through an interdisciplinary and comparative lens, contributors analyze the central advances and dilemmas of contemporary Latin American law. Among them are pioneering jurisprudence and legal mobilization for the fulfillment of socioeconomic rights in a highly unequal region, the rise of multicultural constitutionalism and legal struggles around identity politics, the globalization of legal education and practice, tensions between developmental policies and environmental justice, and the emergence of a regional human rights system. These and other processes have not only radically altered the institutional landscape of the region, but also produced academic and practical innovations that are of global interest and defy conventional accounts of Latin American law inherited from law-and-development studies. Painting a portrait of the new Latin American legal thought for an international audience, Law and Society in Latin America: A New Map will be of particular interest to students of comparative law, legal mobilization, and Latin American politics.

Author : Helena Alviar García
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000386998

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Legal Experiments for Development in Latin America by Helena Alviar García Pdf

This book provides a nuanced picture of how diverse legal debates on the pursuit of economic development and modernization have played out in Latin America since independence. The opposing concepts of modernization theory and Dependency Theory can be seen to be playing out within the field of legal transformation, as some legal analysts define law as a closed, formal, rational system, and others see law as inseparable from economic, social and political change. Legal experiments have followed these trends, in some cases using legal instruments to guarantee classical, civil and political rights, and in others demanding radical transformation of existing legal structures. This book traces these debates across the key topics of: economic development and foreign investment; property; resource and power distribution in terms of gender and social policy. Drawing on a wide range of literature, the book adds complexity and color to our understanding of these themes in Latin America. This insightful exploration of comparative law within Latin America provides the tools needed to understand legal transformation in the region, and as such will be of interest to researchers within law, political sociology, development and Latin American studies.

Author : Kenneth L. Karst,Keith S. Rosenn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520313361

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Law and Development in Latin America by Kenneth L. Karst,Keith S. Rosenn Pdf

Author : David M. Trubek,Helena Alviar García,Alvaro Santos,Diogo R. Coutinho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Brazil
ISBN : 1107342015

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Law and the New Developmental State by David M. Trubek,Helena Alviar García,Alvaro Santos,Diogo R. Coutinho Pdf

This book explores the emergence of a new developmental state in Latin America and its significance for law and development theory. In Brazil since 2000, emerging forms of state activism, including a new industrial policy and a robust social policy, differ from both classic developmental state and neoliberal approaches. They favor a strong state and a strong market, employ public-private partnerships, seek to reduce inequality, and embrace the global economy. Case studies of state activism and law in Brazil show new roles emerging for legal institutions. They describe how the national development bank uses law in innovation promotion, trade law strengthens new developmental policies in export promotion and public health, and social law frames innovative poverty-relief programs that reduce inequality and stimulate demand. Contrasting Brazilian experience with Colombia and Mexico, the book underscores the unique features of Brazil's trajectory and the importance of this experience for understanding the role of law in development today.

Author : Pedro Fortes,Larissa Boratti,Andrés Palacios Lleras,Tom Gerald Daly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : David M. Trubek,Helena Alviar García,Diogo R. Coutinho,Alvaro Santos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Brazil
ISBN : 1107237793

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Law and the New Developmental State by David M. Trubek,Helena Alviar García,Diogo R. Coutinho,Alvaro Santos Pdf

This book explores the emergence of a new developmental state in Latin America and its significance for law and development theory.

Author : Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida,Jean-Marc Sorel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317511359

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Latin America and the International Court of Justice by Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida,Jean-Marc Sorel Pdf

This book aims to evaluate the contribution of Latin America to the development of international law at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This contemporary approach to international adjudication includes the historical contribution of the region to the development of international law through the emergence of international jurisdictions, as well as the procedural and material contribution of the cases submitted by or against Latin American states to the ICJ to the development of international law. The project then conceives international jurisdictions from a multifunctional perspective, which encompasses the Court as both an instrument of the parties and an organ of a value-based international community. This shows how Latin American states have become increasingly committed to the peaceful settlement of disputes and to the promotion of international law through adjudication. It culminates with an expansion of the traditional understanding of the function of the ICJ by Latin American states, including an analysis of existing challenges in the region. The book will be of interest to all those interested in international dispute resolution, including academic libraries, the judiciary, practitioners in international law, government institutions, academics, and students alike.

Author : Rachel Sieder,Karina Ansolabehere,Tatiana Alfonso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1037 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317291275

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Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America by Rachel Sieder,Karina Ansolabehere,Tatiana Alfonso Pdf

An understanding of law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of "rule of law" which have dominated debates on law, politics and society, and that recognize the diversity of situations and contexts characterizing the region. The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America presents cutting-edge analysis of the central theoretical and applied areas of enquiry in socio-legal studies in the region by leading figures in the study of law and society from Latin America, North America and Europe. Contributors argue that scholarship about Latin America has made vital contributions to longstanding and emerging theoretical and methodological debates on the relationship between law and society. Key topics examined include: The gap between law-on-the-books and law in action The implications of legal pluralism and legal globalization The legacies of experiences of transitional justice Emerging forms of socio-legal and political mobilization Debates concerning the relationship between the legal and the illegal. The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America sets out new research agendas for cross-disciplinary socio-legal studies and will be of interest to those studying law, sociology of law, comparative Latin American politics, legal anthropology and development studies.

Author : Edgardo Buscaglia,William E. Ratliff,Robert Cooter
Publisher : JAI Press(NY)
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Economic development
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062253880

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The Law and Economics of Development by Edgardo Buscaglia,William E. Ratliff,Robert Cooter Pdf

An examination of how legal and economic issues affect developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed upon Latin America, with studies of deregulation in Mexico, judicial reform in Latin America and jurisprudence of the antitrust committee in Chile.

Author : James A. Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Law
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173025274714

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Legal Imperialism by James A. Gardner Pdf

Author : International Legal Center. Research Advisory Committee on Law and Development
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9171060901

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Law and Development by International Legal Center. Research Advisory Committee on Law and Development Pdf

Report on the role of law in economic and social development, with particular reference to legal research - discusses obstacles, institutional frameworks, etc., and recommends a social sciences approach and methodology. References.

Author : Armin von Bogdandy,Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor,Mariela Morales Antoniazzi,Flávia Piovesan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198795919

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Transformative Constitutionalism in Latin America by Armin von Bogdandy,Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor,Mariela Morales Antoniazzi,Flávia Piovesan Pdf

This ground-breaking collection of essays outlines and explains the unique development of Latin American jurisprudence. It introduces the idea of the Ius Constitutionale Commune en America Latina (ICCAL), an original Latin American path of transformative constitutionalism, to an Anglophone audience for the first time. It charts the key developments that have transformed the region and assesses the success of the constitutional projects that followed a period of authoritarian regimes in Latin America. Coined by scholars who have been documenting, conceptualizing, and comparing the development of Latin American public law for more than a decade, the term ICCAL encompasses themes that cross national borders and legal fields, taking in constitutional law, administrative law, general public international law, regional integration law, human rights, and investment law. Not only does this volume map the legal landscape, it also suggests measures to improve society via due legal process and a rights-based, supranational and regionally rooted constitutionalism. The editors contend that with the strengthening of democracy, the rule of law, and human rights, common problems such as the exclusion of wide sectors of the population from having a say in government, as well as corruption, hyper-presidentialism, and the weak normativity of the law can be combatted more effectively in future.

Author : Edgardo Buscaglia,Maria Dakolias,William E. Ratliff
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Courts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017258794

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Judicial Reform in Latin America by Edgardo Buscaglia,Maria Dakolias,William E. Ratliff Pdf

An essay on the need for a well functioning judiciary system in Latin America.

Author : OECD,Inter-American Development Bank
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264042001

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Peer Reviews of Competition Law and Policy in Latin America A Follow-up: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru by OECD,Inter-American Development Bank Pdf