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An understanding of law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of ´rule of law´ which have dominated debates on law, politics and society, and that recognize the diversity of situations and contexts characterizing the region.

The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America presents cutting-edge analysis of the central theoretical and applied areas of enquiry in socio-legal studies in the region by leading figures in the study of law and society from Latin America, North America and Europe. Contributors argue that scholarship about Latin America has made vital contributions to longstanding and emerging theoretical and methodological debates on the relationship between law and society.

Key topics examined include:

The gap between law-on-the-books and law in action
The implications of legal pluralism and legal globalization
The legacies of experiences of transitional justice
Emerging forms of socio-legal and political mobilization
Debates concerning the relationship between the legal and the illegal.
The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America sets out new research agendas for cross-disciplinary socio-legal studies and will be of interest to those studying law, sociology of law, comparative Latin American politics, legal anthropology and development studies.



Table of Contents
1. Law and Society in Latin America: An IntroductionRachel Sieder, Karina Ansolabehere and Tatiana Alfonso

Part 1. Law, Politics and Society

2. Latin America's Contribution to Constitutionalism

Roberto Gargarella

3.State and Law in Latin America: A Critical Assessment

Lisa Hilbink and Janice Gallagher

4. Legal Pluralism and Fragmented Sovereignties: Legality and Illegalityin Latin America

Rachel Sieder

5. Disobeying the Law: Latin America's Culture of Noncompliance with Rules

Mauricio García Villegas

6. Law and Violence in Latin America

Julieta Lemaitre

7. Ethnography, Bureaucracy and Legal Knowledge in Latin American State Institutions: Law's Material and Technical Dimensions

Leticia Barrera and Sergio Latorre

8. Latin American feminist legal theory: taking multiple subordinations seriously

Isabel C. Jaramillo Sierra

9. Law and Race in Latin America

Tanya Katerí Hernández

10. An Agenda for Latin American ´Law and Development´

Pedro Fortes

11. Marxist Perspectives on Law and Inequality in Latin America

Carlos Rivera-Lugo

Part 2: New Constitutional Models and Institutional Design

12. Judicial Politics in Latin America

Juan F. González-Bertomeu

13. Supreme and Constitutional Courts: Directions in Constitutional Justice

Francisca Pou Jimenez

14. Public Prosecutors Offices in Latin America

Veronica Michel-Luviano

15. Human Rights Ombudsmen in Latin America

Fredrik Uggla

16. Prisoner Capture: Welfare, Lawfare and Warfare in Latin America's Overcrowded Prisons

Fiona Macaulay

17. Challenges of Police Reform in Latin America

Lucia Dammert

18. Legal Professionals in Latin America at the dawn of the 21st Century

Manuel Gómez

19. Legal Institutions as Arenas for Promoting Human Rights

Karina Ansolabehere

20. Deglobalization and Regional Human Rights

Alexandra Huneeus

Part 3: Law and Social Movements

21. The Judicialization of Politics in Latin America

Bruce Wilson and Camila Gianella

22. Society, the State, and Recognition of the Right to a Self-Perceived Gender Identity

Laura Saldivia Menajovsky

23. Law, Gender and Social movements in Latin America: Moral Negotiations and Uneven Victories in Feminist Legal Mobilization

Marta Machado de Assis, Ana Luiza Villela de Viana Bandeira and Fernanda Matsuda

24. Transitional Justice and the Politics of Prosecuting Gross Human Rights Violations in Latin America

Elena Martinez Barahona and Martha Liliana Gutiérrez

Part 4: Emergent Topics

25. Urban Regulation and the Latin American City

Rodrigo Meneses Reyes

26. Landscapes of Property: Socio-Legal Perspectives from Latin America

Tatiana Alfonso

27. New Influences on Legality and Justice in Latin America: Corruption and Organized Crime

Linn Hammergren

28. The 'New Militarism´ and the Rule of Law in Latin American Democracies

Julio Ríos-Figueroa

29. Drugs and the Law in Latin America: The Legal, Institutional and Social Costs of Drug Policy

Alejandro Madrazo and Catalina Pérez Correa