Ruling the Law: Legitimacy and Failure in Latin American Legal Systems

by Jorge L Esquirol and Jorge L. Esquirol

Book Overview

The North-South global divide is as much about perception and prejudice as it is about economic disparities. Latin America is no less ruled by hegemonic misrepresentations of its national legal systems. The European image of its laws mostly upholds legal legitimacy and international comity. By contrast, diagnoses of excessive legal formalism, an extraordinary gap between law and action, inappropriate European transplants, elite control, pervasive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316630927
• ISBN13: 9781316630921
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"