Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Part 1
Chronology
Introduction
M.C. Mirow and Victor M. Uribe-Uran
1 Law Before European Contact: Mesoamerica
Jerome A. Offner
2 The Sun's Mandates: Customary Law in the Andes
Susan Elizabeth Ramírez
3 Law in Spanish and Portuguese America: the Early Colonial Period
Heikki Pihlajamäki
4 From Justice to Law: Late Colonial and Early Republican Eras
Sarah C. Chambers
5 Liberalism
Timo H. Schaefer
6 Enacting Legal Reforms, Reshaping Modern Societies: the Transformation of Latin American Law from 1930 to the Present
Cristián Villalonga
Part 2
Historical Actors
7 Legal Education and the Legal Profession
Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo
8 The Panorama of Indigenous Legal History
Brian P. Owensby
9 Africans and Afro-Americans
Robert J. Cottrol
10 Enslaved Humans
Mariana Dias Paes
11 Women
Alex Wisnoski
12 Immigrants and Outsiders
Diego Acosta
13 Peasants and Workers
William Suárez-Potts
Part 3
Selected Topics
14 Land and Other Property
Agustín Parise
15 Commercial Law, Business, and Commerce
Óscar Cruz Barney
16 Law and Labor Rights
Juan Manuel Palacio
17 Criminal Law
Alejandro Agüero
18 Filiation, Marriage, Family, and Domestic Conflicts
Victor M. Uribe-Uran
19 The Church
M.C. Mirow
20 The Welfare State
Eduardo Zimmermann
21 Constitutions, Rights, and Government
Marta Lorente Sariñena
22 Legal Pluralism
Tamar Herzog
Index
