Legal History Library A Companion to Latin American Legal History Book 64 (Hardcover)

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.