Latin American lawyers
Subtitle: a historical introduction
By: Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Law -- Study and teaching -- Latin America -- History; Practice of law -- Latin America -- History
Description: This is a comprehensive history of the intellectual training and social placement of lawyers in Latin America. It 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lawyers and the civil law tradition; title: The American lawyers of the Spanish monarchy; title: Lawyers and the construction of nations; title: From development to globalization.