The contemporary legal systems of Latin America were all established on institutional foundations that had evolved during not only the course of four centuries of Spanish and Portuguese colonial rule, but also from the fusion of preexisting institutions formed in previous evolutionary processes. This article is an attempt first to develop an analytical framework in which such developments can be meaningfully analysed and second to identify the principal features of these prior regimes. It begins with a detailed set of propositions defining law, its basic elements and attributes as well as a theory of legal evolution. It continues with an application of this framework in the context of the Aztec and Inca civilizations, the evolution of law o...
The text explores the ways in wich the indigenous people used the law during the laststage of the co...
The Spanish Constitution of Cádiz of 1812 (“Constitution”) has recently attracted the attention of c...
Leyes de Indias represent a mosaic of laws established over three centuries (XVI-XVIII) by the Spani...
The contemporary legal systems of Latin America were all established on institutional foundations th...
This chapter provides an overview of the legal aspects of Spain\u27s enterprise in the Americas. It ...
Private law touches every aspect of people\u27s daily lives—landholding, inheritance, private proper...
Se ha dicho y escrito que los conquistadores españoles en poco tiempo dominaron un tan extenso Nuevo...
"The present work addresses the history of Derecho Indiano (Spanish Colonial Law) and proposes to ex...
This article presents an outline of the “legal coloniality” following some theoretical lines of Lati...
"Spanish colonial law, derecho indiano, has since the early 20th century been a vigorous subdiscipli...
When Christopher Columbus (circa 1451-1506) arrived at the Bahamas in 1492, it could hardly be predi...
La pérdida de las posesiones españolas en el continente americano durante las primeras décadas del s...
This contribution discusses the collapse of the Iberian Empire and the transformation of legal regim...
The rise of the modern State did not just mean the instauration of a political and cultural system c...
This article contains an analysis of the laws of the kingdoms of the Indies: a compendium of norms m...
The text explores the ways in wich the indigenous people used the law during the laststage of the co...
The Spanish Constitution of Cádiz of 1812 (“Constitution”) has recently attracted the attention of c...
Leyes de Indias represent a mosaic of laws established over three centuries (XVI-XVIII) by the Spani...
The contemporary legal systems of Latin America were all established on institutional foundations th...
This chapter provides an overview of the legal aspects of Spain\u27s enterprise in the Americas. It ...
Private law touches every aspect of people\u27s daily lives—landholding, inheritance, private proper...
Se ha dicho y escrito que los conquistadores españoles en poco tiempo dominaron un tan extenso Nuevo...
"The present work addresses the history of Derecho Indiano (Spanish Colonial Law) and proposes to ex...
This article presents an outline of the “legal coloniality” following some theoretical lines of Lati...
"Spanish colonial law, derecho indiano, has since the early 20th century been a vigorous subdiscipli...
When Christopher Columbus (circa 1451-1506) arrived at the Bahamas in 1492, it could hardly be predi...
La pérdida de las posesiones españolas en el continente americano durante las primeras décadas del s...
This contribution discusses the collapse of the Iberian Empire and the transformation of legal regim...
The rise of the modern State did not just mean the instauration of a political and cultural system c...
This article contains an analysis of the laws of the kingdoms of the Indies: a compendium of norms m...
The text explores the ways in wich the indigenous people used the law during the laststage of the co...
The Spanish Constitution of Cádiz of 1812 (“Constitution”) has recently attracted the attention of c...
Leyes de Indias represent a mosaic of laws established over three centuries (XVI-XVIII) by the Spani...