Legal Culture in the Age of Globalization: Latin America and Latin EuropeLawrence Friedman, Rogelio Perez-Perdomo Stanford University Press, 2003 M09 9 - 552 pages This volume of essays examines how the legal systems of the chief countries of Latin America and Mediterranean Europe Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, France, Italy, and Spain changed in the last quarter of the 20th century. Through essays that provide a wealth of data on the courts and the legal profession in these countries, the book attempts to relate changes in the operation of the legal systems to changes in the political and social history of the societies in which they are embedded. The details vary, in accordance with the particular history and structure of the countries, but there are also key commonalities that run through all of the stories: democratization, globalization, and changes in the legal order that seem to be worldwide; more power to courts; a growing legal profession; and the entry of women into what was once a masculine club. |
Contents
The Effects of Democratic Institutionalization | 20 |
The Road of Conflict Bound for Total Justice | 64 |
Law and Legal Culture in Chile 19741999 | 108 |
A Sociolegal Analysis | 134 |
The Rise of Lawyers in France | 184 |
1A Increases in the French Population | 212 |
The Italian Legal System 19451999 | 220 |
Criminal Justice and the Rise of an Active | 239 |
Faraway So Close The Rule of Law and Legal Change in Mexico | 285 |
The Legal System in Puerto Rico | 352 |
Criminal and Civil Cases Solved and Pending in Superior Courts | 355 |
The Organization Functioning and Evaluation of the Spanish Judicial | 377 |
The Legal System in an Impaired | 414 |
Patterns of Foreign Legal Investment and State Transformation | 479 |
A Memoir | 499 |
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