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Latin legal cultures in the age of globalization / Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo and Lawrence Friedman -- Argentina : the effects of democratic institutionalization / María Inés Bergoglio -- Brazil : the road of conflict bound for total justice / Eliane Botelho Junqueria -- Law and legal culture in Chile, 1974-1999 / Edmundo Fuenzalida Faivovich -- Justice and society in Colombia : a sociolegal analysis of Colombian courts / César Rodriguez, Mauricio García-Villegas and Rodrigo Uprimny -- The rise of lawyers in France / Anne Boigeol -- The Italian legal system 1945-1999 / Sabino Cassese -- Italian styles : criminal justice and the rise of an active magistracy / David S. Clark -- "Faraway, so close!" : the rule of law and legal change in Mexico, 1970-2000 / Sergio López-Ayllón and Héctor Fix-Fierro -- Citizens running to the courts : the legal system in Puerto Rico and the modernization process / Blanca G. Silvestrini -- The organization, functioning, and evaluation of the Spanish judicial system, 1975-2000 : a case-study in legal culture / José Juan Toharia -- Venezuela, 1958-1999 : the legal system in an impaired democracy / Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo -- Patterns of foreign legal investment and state transformation in Latin America / Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth -- Slade : a memoir / John Henry Merryman. |
