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

Challenges the distorted hegemonic accounts of Latin American law and reveals their geopolitical and economic consequences in the world today.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The fiction of legal Europeanness; 2. The fiction of failed law; 3. The geopolitics of Latin American legal fictions; 4. Latin American cases; Concluding thoughts.

About the author

Jorge L. Esquirol is a founding faculty member of the College of Law at Florida International University and the school's first international programs director. He was previously academic affairs director at the Harvard Law School Graduate Program and then faculty member at Northeastern University School of Law. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School J.D. and S.J.D. programs and Georgetown University undergraduate in finance. Professor Esquirol is the 2016 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento in Italy. He has published various books and articles on law in Latin America, including publications in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.

Summary

Esquirol brings unrelenting legal realism to comparative law by challenging the conventional narratives - or fictions - of permanent failure and of European identity of Latin American law. He demonstrates their role in global governance,forum non conveniens motions and enforcement of foreign judgments in US courts, and investor-state arbitration.

Product details

• Authors: Jorge L. Esquirol, Jorge L. (Florida International Universi Esquirol, Jorge L. (Florida International University) Esquirol
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781107178397
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17839-7
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: ASCL Studies in Comparative Law; Ascl Studies in Comparative La
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Comparative, International Relations, Politics & government, Comparative Politics, Politics and government, comparative law, Jurisprudence & general issues, International institutions, Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law, Laws Of Specific Jurisdictions, Law & society, Jurisprudence and general issues, Law and society, sociology of law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General