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Latin American Lawyers
This book is the first comprehensive history of the intellectual training and social placement of lawyers in Latin America. Pérez-Perdomo examines the Roman legal roots of the Latin American tradition and traces the development of legal education and practice in Latin America from the 16th century to the present. The main themes in the book are the relationship between lawyers and power, the place of lawyers in social stratification, the role of law and lawyers in building nations and maintaining elite power, the role of law schools, and the main intellectual trends in legal thought.
The Brazilian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization
Brings together experts from North and South to examine the impact of globalization on the corporate legal environment in Brazil.
The Unwritten Brazilian Constitution
The Unwritten Brazilian Constitution offers an unexplored topic outside Portuguese language: the leading cases on human rights in the Brazilian Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal – STF). The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 represents an institutional framework able to restructure the relationship between the powers after the military dictatorship. The constituents drafted the Brazilian Constitution in order to set an extensive system of judicial protection for fundamental rights, by means of several instruments that have strengthened access to the Judiciary. Because the Brazilian Constitution has an extensive list of fundamental rights, the STF was called to interpret them several times and it developed an unwritten understanding of these fundamental rights. These decisions are not available to the international community since they are not translated to English. Based on this gap, this original book illustrates the main rulings on human rights analyzed by great scholars in Brazil. The text presents a deep discussion regarding the characteristics of the cases and demonstrates how the STF has built the legal arguments to interpret the extension of the fundamental rights.
Legal Professionals in White-Collar Crime
This work is dedicated to map the modes of thinking and acting of legal professionals who work in white-collar crime. Lawyers, whose decisions generate economic and political consequences, stand at a strategic location between the state and key segments of society. This monograph’s approach is linked to the foundations of the sociology of knowledge, that culture antecedes and anchors social action. It starts by reconstructing the worldviews that legal professionals hold about corruption and its main participants, and then advances to examine decision-making. The author is introducing an innovative dataset comprised of interviews, court records and biographical data to investigate Brazilian...
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and other Alternative License Models
This book discusses the main legal questions raised by free and open source software (FOSS) licenses and other alternative license models, such as Creative Commons. The legal questions raised by FOSS and other alternative licenses have been the subject of an intense international debate among legal scholars and practising lawyers in the last years. Courts in different jurisdictions have confirmed that the core features of FOSS licenses are compliant with the respective applicable laws and thus enforceable in the respective jurisdictions. What is still missing so far is an in-depth comparative analysis of the legal issues raised by FOSS, Creative Commons and other alternative license on a wor...
Justices and Journalists
A comparative approach to judicial communication offering perspectives on the relationship between national supreme courts and the media covering them.
Lawyers in Society
Essays describing the legal profession in the civil law world.
Supremo Interesse
Ao longo da história republicana brasileira, nunca o Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) desempenhou um papel tão presente e relevante na vida do país. Por isso, o acompanhamento de seus códigos, tradições e decisões foram progressivamente incorporados ao cotidiano dos brasileiros. Hoje, a cúpula do Poder Judiciário nacional é pauta de conversas de botequim, posts, jornais e fake news. Sem dúvida alguma, o STF assumiu uma das posições de maior destaque institucional no Brasil do Século XXI. A Corte Suprema, no entanto, não é apenas uma instituição. É, também e, sobretudo, ao trabalhar a partir de um documento jurídico genérico como a Constituição, o conjunto de ações, co...
Criminal Defense in China
This book studies the struggles for basic legal freedoms in the work and political mobilization of defense lawyers in China's criminal justice system.
Crossing Boundaries
Perhaps no idea is more emblematic of the field of law and society than crossing boundaries. From the founding of the Law and Society Association in the early 1960s, participating scholars aspired to create a field that crossed boundaries in at least two senses: by undertaking research that questioned and often bridged traditional methodological and disciplinary divisions, and by using nontraditional approaches to explore the interconnections between law and its social context. These essays reflect both aspirations.
