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.
Legal Imperialism: American Lawyers and Foreign Aid in Latin America
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 ...
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.
Opposing Models The general move from the gentlemen politicians of the law to the economists termed technopols has a few general features that have already been highlighted, the most basic of which is that the leading expertise of the ...
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.
This carefully designed 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.
Comparative Law, Western European and Latin American Legal Systems: Cases and Materials
Twenty-one leading Latin American lawyers discuss keys to success to conducting business in ten South American jurisdictions.
The Principles of Latin American Contract Law Rodrigo Momberg, Stefan Vogenauer. Until recently, Latin America has been absent from this trend. In this sense, one curious feature of Latin American law is that, despite the countries of ...
Transforming Courts, Institutions, and Rights Pedro Fortes, Larissa Boratti, Andrés Palacios Lleras, Tom Gerald Daly ... Ignacio De León, An Institutional Assessment of Antitrust Policy: The Latin American Experience (Kluwer Law ...