Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume examines the lives of more than thirty-five key personalities in Latin American law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law in their countries and the region.

The book is a significant contribution to our ability to understand the work and perspectives of jurists and their effect on legal development in Latin America. The individuals selected for study exhibit wide-ranging areas of expertise from private law and codification, through national public law and constitutional law, to international developments that left their mark on the region and the world. The chapters discuss the jurists within their historical, intellectual, and political context. The editors selected jurists after extensive consultation with legal historians in various countries of the region looking at the jurist’s particular merits, contributions to law in general, religious perspective, and importance within the specific country and period under consideration. Giving the work a diversity of international and methodological perspectives, the chapters have been written by distinguished legal scholars and historians from Latin America and around the world.

The collection will appeal to scholars, lawyers, and students interested in the interplay between law and religion. Political, social, legal, and religious historians among other readers will find, for the first time in English, authoritative treatments of the region’s essential legal thinkers and authors. Students and other who may not read Spanish will appreciate these clear, accessible, and engaging English studies of the region’s great jurists.

M. C. Mirow, Professor of Law, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA.

Sommaire

Foreword
John Witte, Jr.

Introduction
M. C. Mirow

Nineteenth-Century Jurists

1 Juan Germán Roscio (Venezuela, 1763 –1821)
Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo

2 Andrés Bello (Venezuela and Chile, 1781–1865) 
Alejandro Guzmán

3 Félix Varela y Morales (Cuba, 1788–1853) 
M. C. Mirow

4 Mariano Egaña (Chile, 1793–1846)
Javier Francisco Infante Martin

5 Justo Donoso Vivanco (Chile, 1800–1868)
Cristóbal García-Huidobro Becerra

6 Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield (Argentina, 1800–1875)
Abelardo Levaggi

7 José Bernardo Couto y Pérez (Mexico, 1803–1862)
Óscar Cruz Barney

8 Teodosio Lares (Mexico, 1806–1870) 
Brian Hamnett

9 Bartolomé Herrera Vélez (Peru, 1808–1864)
Fernán Altuve-Febres Lores

10 Juan Nepomuceno Rodríguez de San Miguel (Mexico, 1808–1877)
Juan Pablo Salazar Andreu

11 Juan Bautista Alberdi (Argentina, 1810–1884)
Ezequiel Abásolo

12 Clemente de Jesús Munguía Núñez (Mexico, 1810–1868)
Jorge Adame Goddard

13 Eduardo Acevedo Maturana (Uruguay, 1815–1863) 
Juan Carlos Frontera

14 Augusto Teixeira de Freitas (Brazil, 1816–1883)
Alfredo de J. Flores

15 Justo Arosemena Quesada (Panama and Colombia, 1817–1896)
Hernán Alejandro Olano García and M. C. Mirow

16 Tristán Narvaja (Argentina and Uruguay, 1819–1877) 
Viviana Kluger

17 Gabriel García Moreno (Ecuador, 1821–1875)
Peter V. N. Henderson

18 Julián Viso (Venezuela, 1822–1900)
Gustavo Adolfo Vaamonde

19 Rafael Fernández Concha (Chile, 1833–1883)
Raúl Madrid

20 Tobias Barreto de Meneses (Brazil, 1839–1889)
Marcio Ricardo Staffen

21 José Manuel Estrada (Argentina, 1842–1894)
Agustín Parise

22 Miguel Antonio Caro Tobar (Colombia, 1845–1909)
Eduardo Herrera and M. C. Mirow

23 Fernando Vélez Barrientos (Colombia, 1847–1935)
Victor M. Uribe-Uran

Twentieth-Century Jurists

24 Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirvén (Cuba, 1855–1961)
Juan Bosco Amores Carredano

25 Víctor Andrés Belaúnde Diez Canseco (Peru, 1883–1966)
Martín Santiváñez Vivanco

26 José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma (Peru, 1885–1944)
José de la Puente Brunke

27 Manuel Herrera y Lasso (Mexico, 1890–1967)
Kif Augustine-Adams

28 Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (Brazil, 1893–1991)
Ernesto Pimentel and Paul Sekscenski

29 Julio Tobar Donoso (Ecuador, 1894–1981)
Álvaro Mejía-Salazar

30 Tomás Darío Casares (Argentina, 1895–1977)
Juan Cianciardo and Marcelo Fernández Peralta

31 Pedro Lira Urquieta (Chile, 1900–1981)
Cristián Villalonga Torrijo

32. Arturo Enrique Sampay (Argentina, 1911–1977)
Susana Ramella

33 Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez (Venezuela, 1916–2009)
Carlos García Soto

34 Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (El Salvador, 1917–1980)
Rafael Domingo

35 Germán Bidart Campos (Argentina, 1927–2004)
Santiago Legarre

36 Juan Larrea Holguín (Ecuador, 1927–2006)
Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba

37 Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito (Brazil, 1942–2009)
Robert J. Cottrol