Legal culture in the age of globalization
Subtitle: Latin America and Latin Europe
By: edited by Lawrence M. Friedman and Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo.
Contributors: Friedman, Lawrence Meir, 1930-; Pérez Perdomo, Rogelio.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
Subjects: Law -- Latin America; Law -- Europe, Southern; Democracy -- Latin America; Democracy -- Europe, Southern; Sociological jurisprudence; Globalization
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Latin legal cultures in the age of globalization / Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo and Lawrence Friedman; title: Argentina : the effects of democratic institutionalization / Maria Inés Bergoglio; title: Brazil : the road of conflict bound for total justice / Eliane Botelho Junqueria; title: Law and legal culture in Chile (1974-1999) / Edmundo Fuenzalida Faivovich; title: Justice and society in Colombia : a sociolegal analysis of Colombian courts / Rodrigo Uprimny, César Rodriguez, and Mauricio García-Villegas; title: The rise of lawyers in France / Anne Boigeol; title: The Italian legal system 1945-1999 / Sabino Cassese; title: Italian styles : criminal justice and the rise of an active magistracy / David S. Clark; title: "Faraway, so close!" : the rule of law and legal change in Mexico (1970-2000) / Sergio López-Ayllón and Héctor Fix-Fierro; title: Citizens running to the courts : the legal system in Puerto Rico and the modernization process / Blanca G. Silvestrini; title: The organization, functioning, and evaluation of the Spanish judicial system (1975-2000) : a case-study in legal culture / José Juan Toharia; title: Venezuela 1958-1999 : the legal system in an impaired democracy / Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo; title: Patterns of foreign legal investment and state transformation in Latin America / Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth; title: Slade : a memoir / John Henry Merryman.