Companion to Latin American Legal History

M.C. Mirow, Ph.D. (1993), Cambridge University, Dr.jur. (2003), Leiden University, is Professor of Law at Florida International University College of Law. He is the author of Latin American Law and Latin American Constitutions.Victor M. Uribe-Uran, Ph.D. (1993), University of Pittsburgh, is Professor of History and Law at Florida International University. He has authored, edited, or co-edited four books including Fatal Love: Spousal Murders, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic (Stanford, 2016), and around one hundred articles, chapters, and reviews.

The press about volume 1 in the series:"[The book] succeeds as an excellent point of entry to what at times can seem like a highly complex subject. [..] [The editors] and their fellow contributors have undoubtedly got the new series off to the strongest possible start." – Warren Swain, The Edinburgh Law Review

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsPart 1ChronologyIntroductionM.C. Mirow and Victor M. Uribe-Uran1 Law Before European Contact: MesoamericaJerome A. Offner2 The Sun’s Mandates: Customary Law in the AndesSusan Elizabeth Ramírez3 Law in Spanish and Portuguese America: the Early Colonial PeriodHeikki Pihlajamäki4 From Justice to Law: Late Colonial and Early Republican ErasSarah C. Chambers5 LiberalismTimo H. Schaefer6 Enacting Legal Reforms, Reshaping Modern Societies: the Transformation of Latin American Law from 1930 to the PresentCristián VillalongaPart 2Historical Actors7 Legal Education and the Legal ProfessionRogelio Pérez-Perdomo8 The Panorama of Indigenous Legal HistoryBrian P. Owensby9 Africans and Afro-AmericansRobert J. Cottrol10 Enslaved HumansMariana Dias Paes11 WomenAlex Wisnoski12 Immigrants and OutsidersDiego Acosta13 Peasants and WorkersWilliam Suárez-PottsPart 3Selected Topics14 Land and Other PropertyAgustín Parise15 Commercial Law, Business, and CommerceÓscar Cruz Barney16 Law and Labor RightsJuan Manuel Palacio17 Criminal LawAlejandro Agüero18 Filiation, Marriage, Family, and Domestic ConflictsVictor M. Uribe-Uran19 The ChurchM.C. Mirow20 The Welfare StateEduardo Zimmermann21 Constitutions, Rights, and GovernmentMarta Lorente Sariñena22 Legal PluralismTamar HerzogIndex