The Latin American Casebook

Author : Juan F. Gonzalez-Bertomeu,Roberto Gargarella
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317026204

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The Latin American Casebook by Juan F. Gonzalez-Bertomeu,Roberto Gargarella Pdf

Traditionally relegated because of political pressure and public expectations, courts in Latin America are increasingly asserting a stronger role in public and political discussions. This casebook takes account of this phenomenon, by offering a rigorous and up-to-date discussion of constitutional adjudication in Latin America in recent decades. Bringing to the forefront the development of constitutional law by Latin American courts in various subject matters, the volume aims to highlight a host of creative arguments and solutions that judges in the region have offered. The authors review and discuss innovative case law in light of the countries’ social, political and legal context. Each chapter is devoted to a discussion of a particular area of judicial review, from freedom of expression to social and economic rights, from the internalization of human rights law to judicial checks on the economy, from gender and reproductive rights to transitional justice. The book thus provides a very useful tool to scholars, students and litigants alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 1315556294

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The Latin American Casebook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ángel R. Oquendo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Juan F. Gonzalez-Bertomeu,Roberto Gargarella
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317026198

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The Latin American Casebook by Juan F. Gonzalez-Bertomeu,Roberto Gargarella Pdf

Traditionally relegated because of political pressure and public expectations, courts in Latin America are increasingly asserting a stronger role in public and political discussions. This casebook takes account of this phenomenon, by offering a rigorous and up-to-date discussion of constitutional adjudication in Latin America in recent decades. Bringing to the forefront the development of constitutional law by Latin American courts in various subject matters, the volume aims to highlight a host of creative arguments and solutions that judges in the region have offered. The authors review and discuss innovative case law in light of the countries’ social, political and legal context. Each chapter is devoted to a discussion of a particular area of judicial review, from freedom of expression to social and economic rights, from the internalization of human rights law to judicial checks on the economy, from gender and reproductive rights to transitional justice. The book thus provides a very useful tool to scholars, students and litigants alike.

Author : Kenneth L Karst,Kenneth L. Karst,Keith S. Rosenn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : M. C. Mirow
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Rachel Sieder,Karina Ansolabehere,Tatiana Alfonso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1037 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Jorge L. Esquirol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107178397

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The Fictions of Latin American Law and their Strategic Uses by Jorge L. Esquirol Pdf

Challenges the distorted hegemonic accounts of Latin American law and reveals their geopolitical and economic consequences in the world today.

Author : Pável Reyes-Mercado,Guillermo Jesús Larios Hernández
Publisher : Springer
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319944661

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Reverse Entrepreneurship in Latin America by Pável Reyes-Mercado,Guillermo Jesús Larios Hernández Pdf

This book explores the concept of reverse entrepreneurship, providing real-life examples of innovative start-ups and ventures hoping to internationalize. Traditionally, entrepreneurial ideas have flowed from developed countries to emerging markets. This book, however, examines entrepreneurial ideas flowing in the opposite direction, with case studies from organizations that were initially launched in emerging markets. With a specific focus on Latin America, the cases examine the experiences of entrepreneurs and reveal much-needed strategies for entry into developed markets. This book will undoubtedly be useful to both academics and practitioners as it covers a wide range of industries, products and services and takes a closer look at market platforms and high-impact entrepreneurship. Providing a valuable contribution to a relatively unexplored area, this is a compelling collection of insights into reverse entrepreneurship which presents practical solutions for entrepreneurs looking to expand their businesses in the future.

Author : Francisca Pou Giménez,Ruth Rubio Marín,Verónica Undurraga Valdés
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781040010587

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Women, Gender, and Constitutionalism in Latin America by Francisca Pou Giménez,Ruth Rubio Marín,Verónica Undurraga Valdés Pdf

This book discusses to what extent and how constitutional design and practice in Latin America have helped in combatting the subordination of women and LGBTQIA+ people. Covering 11 jurisdictions, the chapters identify the main elements of the constitutional gender order and survey jurisprudential and legislative developments in different areas, incorporating contextual analysis and references to history, political dynamics, social movements, feminist struggles, normative efficacy, and policy. In the context of a constitutionalism that has been celebrated as particularly innovative and socially engaged, the book assesses constitutional performance in the quest to supersede the separate gendered spheres tradition and the subordination of women and sexual minorities to heteronormative hegemony. It fills an important gap in the field of gender and constitutionalism, which has paid very little attention to Latin America compared to the Anglo-American legal world and continental Europe. It identifies regional trends, but also variables which account for the diversity of approaches in various jurisdictions. The book provides much-needed insight into matters that are relevant for legal and socio-legal scholars, an ever-growing number of social actors and movements, and all those interested in comparative constitutionalism and in the intersections between law and gender.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Rosalind Dixon,Tom Ginsburg
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785369216

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Comparative Constitutional Law in Latin America by Rosalind Dixon,Tom Ginsburg Pdf

This book provides unique insights into the practice of democratic constitutionalism in one of the world’s most legally and politically significant regions. It combines contributions from leading Latin American and global scholars to provide ‘bottom up’ and ‘top down’ insights about the lessons to be drawn from the distinctive constitutional experiences of countries in Latin America. In doing so, it also draws on a rich array of legal and interdisciplinary perspectives. Ultimately, it shows both the promise of democratic constitutions as a vehicle for social, economic and political change, and the variation in the actual constitutional experiences of different countries on the ground – or the limits to constitutions as a locus for broader social change.

Author : L. Liberman,S. Garcilazo,E. Stal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137024107

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Multinationals in Latin America by L. Liberman,S. Garcilazo,E. Stal Pdf

The book deals with cases about the impact of, and interaction between, the different Latin American cultural, economic, legal, and political settings on activities, strategies, structures and decision-making processes of MNCs. The cases focus on business processes, settings and organizational behavior in Latin America.

Author : Richard Delgado,Leticia Saucedo,Marc-Tizoc González,Jean Stefancic,Juan Perea
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 164708136X

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Latinos and the Law by Richard Delgado,Leticia Saucedo,Marc-Tizoc González,Jean Stefancic,Juan Perea Pdf

The first casebook of its kind, Latinos and the Law: Cases and Materials addresses a rich array of topics that are relevant to the largest and most diverse ethnic minority group in the United States. Ranging from the legal and social construction of race, ethnicity, and gender, to language, education, immigration, stereotyping, workplace discrimination, and rebellious lawyering, the new edition highlights the Spanish colonization of Latin America to provide further context for the subsequent colonial treatment of its people and leaders by the United States. Beginning with sociolegal histories of the main Latino/a subgroups, early sections of the book contextualize the Latino/a condition within the United States' historical conquest of and hegemony over Latin American peoples, as well as their centurial immigration to the United States. Updated materials on immigration include recent border-control initiatives and rhetoric, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and the controversial separation of asylum-seeking families from Central America. New materials on the workplace feature attacks on unionization, struggles over the minimum wage and fair pay, and one-sided abuse of H-2 visas. The book also contains new coverage of racial insults, stereotypes, popular culture, and inter-group tensions, including an emerging theory of multi-group oppression. Throughout, Latinos and the Law utilizes theoretical approaches that have proven highly useful in understanding Latinos, such as the white-over-black (or black-white) binary of race in the United States, similar concepts of critical race theory and "LatCrit" theory, and the internal colony model of postcolonial theory. With a wide selection of cases, statutes, documents, notes, questions, and bibliographic references, Latinos and the Law updates a vital resource for scholars, teachers, and students interested in understanding the largest and most diverse ethnic minority group in the United States.

Author : Diego Acosta,Diego Acosta Arcarazo
Publisher : Law in Context
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108425568

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The National Versus the Foreigner in South America by Diego Acosta,Diego Acosta Arcarazo Pdf

A historical and comparative analysis investigating two hundred years of migration and citizenship laws in South America.