Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Law and Society in Latin America: An Introduction Part 1: Law, Politics and Society 2. Latin America's contribution to Constitutionalism 3. State and Law in Latin America: A Critical Assessment 4. Legal Pluralism and Fragmented Sovereignties: Legality and Illegality in Latin America 5. Disobeying the Law: Latin America's Culture of Noncompliance with Rules 6. Law and Violence in Latin America 7. Ethnography, Bureaucracy and Legal Knowledge in Latin American State Institutions: Law's Material and Technical Dimensions 8. Latin American Feminist Legal theory: Taking Multiple Subordinations Seriously 9. Law and Race in Latin America 10. An Agenda for Latin American "Law and Development" 11. Marxist Perspectives on Law and Inequality in Latin America Part 2: New Constitutional Models and Institutional Design 12. Judicial Politics in Latin America 13. Supreme and Constitutional Courts: Directions in Constitutional Justice 14. Public Prosecutors Offices in Latin America 15. Human Rights Ombudsmen in Latin America 16. Prisoner Capture: Welfare, Lawfare and Warfare in Latin America's Overcrowded Prisons 17. Challenges of Police Reform in Latin America 18. Legal Professionals in Latin America at the Dawn of the 21st Century 19. Legal Institutions as Arenas for Promoting Human Rights 20. Deglobalization and Regional Human Rights Part 3: Law and Social Movements 21. The Judicialization of Politics in Latin America 22. Society, the State, and Recognition of the Right to a Self-Perceived Gender Identity 23. Law, Gender and Social Movements in Latin America: Moral Negotiations and Uneven Victories in Feminist Legal Mobilization 24. Transitional Justice and the Politics of Prosecuting Gross Human Rights Violations in Latin America Part 4: Emergent Topics 25. Urban Regulation and the Latin American City 26. Landscapes of Property: Socio-Legal Perspectives from Latin America 27. New Influences on Legality and Justice in Latin America: Corruption and Organized Crime 28. The 'New Militarism" and the Rule of Law in Latin American Democracies 29. Drugs and the Law in Latin America: The Legal, Institutional and Social Costs of Drug Policy
