Companion To Latin American Legal History eBook

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 Aguero, Sarah C. Chambers, Robert J. Cottrol, Oscar Cruz Barney, Mariana Dias Paes, Tamar Herzog, Marta Lorente Sarinena, M.C. Mirow, Jerome G. Offner, Brian Owensby, Juan Manuel Palacio, Agustin Parise, Rogelio Perez-Perdomo, Heikki Pihlajamaki, Susan Elizabeth Ramirez, Timo H. Schaefer, William Suarez-Potts, Victor M. Uribe-Uran, Cristian Villalonga, Alex Wisnoski, and Eduardo Zimmermann.