The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective

Introduction Thomas Duve and Tamar Herzog; 1. What is a legal history of Latin American law in a global perspective?; 1.1 How was and is Latin American legal history written? Carlos Petit; 1.2 What is a legal history and how does it relate to other histories? Tamar Herzog; 1.3 How is law produced? Thomas Duve; 1.4 What is global legal history and how can it be done? Mariana Dias Paes; 2. How to approach indigenous law? Caroline Cunill; 3. How to approach colonial law?; 3.1 A civil law for a religious society Tamar Herzog; 3.2 Religious normativity for colonial empires Thomas Duve; 3.3 The domestic sphere Romina Zamora; 4. Independence(s): what is a revolutionary law? Tamar Herzog; 5. The coming of states? The nineteenth century; 5.1 Constitutions Jose Maria Portillo; 5.2 Codifications Agustin Parise; 5.3 Contestations and exclusions Monica Dantas and Roberto Saba; 6. The omnipresence of the state? The twentieth century; 6.1 Towards the administrative state Eduardo Zimmermann; 6.2 Dictatorships Cristiano Paixao; 6.3 Transitional justice and human rights Ruti Teitel and Valeria Vegh Weis; 7. Beyond the state - can state law survive in the twenty-first century? Daniel Bonilla Maldonado.