Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9781138184459 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 476 str.

Rachel Sieder; Karina Ansolabehere

Opis

Understanding 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. Scholarship about Latin America has made vital contributions to longstanding and emerging theoretical and methodological debates on the relationship between law and society and now, it is time for their critical evaluation. The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America presents new original research, and a cutting-edge analysis on the central theoretical and applied areas of enquiry in socio-legal studies in the region. Surveying research published in English, Spanish and Portuguese, leading figures in the study of law and society from Latin America, North America and Europe examine 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 sociolegal and political mobilization, and debates concerning the relationship between the legal and the illegal.　

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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 21^st 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