Liberalism

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This chapter is about the social history of the law in post-colonial Latin America. It describes substantive legal changes in areas such as property, family, and housing law, explores the geographical distribution of the tribunals and public-security forces that mediated between the law and Latin American citizens, and discusses the procedural innovations by which governments intended to move from a colonial to a republican culture of law. The chapter argues that the century between 1830 and 1930 was characterized by a constant struggle between liberalizing and illiberal tendencies in the legal culture of post-colonial Latin America: a struggle in which at first the liberalizing and then the illiberal tendency was ascendant but neither tendency at any time completely eclipsed the other.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationA Companion to Latin American Legal History
EditorsMatthew C. Mirow, Victor Uribe-Uran
PublisherBrill Academic Publishers
Chapter5
Pages130-154
ISBN (Electronic)9789004436091
ISBN (Print)9789004370203
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Nov 2023

Publication series

NameLegal History Library
PublisherBrill
Volume64
ISSN (Print)1874-1793

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