Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America

"Sieder, Ansolabehere and Alfonso Sierra have assembled a stellar cast of experts on the interaction between law, politics and society in Latin America. I am not aware of any other handbook that is as inter-disciplinary as this one, or that covers such a broad range of issues as insightfully and effectively. The volume not only canvasses the literature on old and established topics, providing readers with an excellent overview of the evolution of socio-legal scholarship against the backdrop of political, social and legal change in Latin America, but also includes a wonderful fourth section with essays that identify incipient bodies of research on new and exciting topics. Graduate students and academics will find in this volume a rich source of information about the state of the discipline, and most importantly, a source of inspiration for future projects." — Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos, University of Oxford. Author of Shifting Legal Visions: Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America

"This volume constitutes a landmark contribution to the scholarship on law and society in Latin America, and more broadly. It distinctively captures a breadth of analytical, disciplinary and thematic perspectives on the role of law and norm development in political, social and economic life in the region that is unique and highly valuable. In doing so it engages with the wider complexities of how formal and informal rules, norms and law are contested, negotiated and how legal institutions are invoked in pursuit of different objectives of justice and legal change. It constitutes a major contribution to the scholarship of law, politics and society in Latin America and elsewhere." — Pilar Domingo, Overseas Development Institute

"Sieder, Ansolabehere and Alfonso Sierra have assembled a stellar cast of experts on the interaction between law, politics and society in Latin America. I am not aware of any other handbook that is as inter-disciplinary as this one, or that covers such a broad range of issues as insightfully and effectively. The volume not only canvasses the literature on old and established topics, providing readers with an excellent overview of the evolution of socio-legal scholarship against the backdrop of political, social and legal change in Latin America, but also includes a wonderful fourth section with essays that identify incipient bodies of research on new and exciting topics. Graduate students and academics will find in this volume a rich source of information about the state of the discipline, and most importantly, a source of inspiration for future projects." — Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos, University of Oxford. Author of Shifting Legal Visions: Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America