Law and Christianity in Latin America
The Work of Great Jurists
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Book Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
Editor(s)
Biography
M. C. Mirow, Professor of Law, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA.
Rafael Domingo, Spruill Family Professor of Law and Religion, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Álvaro d’Ors Professor of Law, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.