Legal Culture in the Age of Globalization

by Friedman, Lawrence M.; Perez-Perdomo, Rogelio

• ISBN13: 9780804746991
• ISBN10: 0804746990
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

This volume of essays examines how the legal systems of the chief countries of Latin America and Mediterranean EuropeArgentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, France, Italy, and Spainchanged 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.

Author Biography

Lawrence M. Friedman is Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo is Dean of the Law School at the Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas, Venezuela.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
List of Figures	xii
Contributors	xv
Acknowledgments	xix
1. Latin Legal Cultures in the Age of Globalization	1	(19)
ROGELIO PÉREZ-PERDOMO AND LAWRENCE FRIEDMAN
2. Argentina: The Effects of Democratic Institutionalization	20	(44)
MARIA INÉS BERGOGLIO
3. Brazil: The Road of Conflict Bound for Total Justice	64	(44)
ELIANE BOTELHO JUNQUEIRA
4. Law and Legal Culture in Chile, 1974-1999	108	(26)
EDMUNDO FUENZALIDA FAIVOVICH
5. Justice and Society in Colombia: A Sociolegal Analysis of Colombian Courts	134	(50)
CESAR A. RODRIGUEZ, MAURICIO GARCIA-VILLEGAS, AND RODRIGO UPRIMNY
6. The Rise of Lawyers in France	184	(36)
ANNE BOIGEOL
7. The Italian Legal System, 1945-1999	220	(19)
SABINO CASSESE
8. Italian Styles: Criminal Justice and the Rise of an Active Magistracy	239	(46)
DAVID S. CLARK
9. "Faraway, So Close!" The Rule of Law and Legal Change in Mexico, 1970-2000	285	(67)
SERGIO LÓPEZ-AYLLÓN AND HECTOR FIX-FIERRO
10. Citizens Running to the Courts: The Legal System in Puerto Rico and the Modernization Process	352	(25)
BLANCA G. SILVESTRINI
11. The Organization, Functioning, and Evaluation of the Spanish Judicial System, 1975-2000: A Case Study in Legal Culture	377	(37)
JOSE JUAN TOHARIA
12. Venezuela, 1958-1999: The Legal System in an Impaired Democracy	414	(65)
ROGELIO PÉREZ-PERDOMO
13. Patterns of Foreign Legal Investment and State Transformation in Latin America	479	(20)
YVES DEZALAY AND BRYANT GARTH
14. SLADE: A Memoir	499	(16)
JOHN HENRY MERRYMAN
Index	515