Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America

2017 | Gender Studies

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.

Rachel Sieder (Author)