"This volume provides an overview of Latin American law from the pre-colonial period to the present,showcasing commonalities and differences. Written by international experts, it will be the standard reference for legal scholars and historians. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"

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 José María Portillo; 5.2 Codifications Agustín 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 Paixão; 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.