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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2019
      November 2019
      ISBN:
      9781316823552
      9781107178397
      9781316630921
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316823552
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 302 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 300 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Law, Comparative Law, Politics and International Relations, Latin American Government, Politics and Policy
      Series:
      ASCL Studies in Comparative Law
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Law, Comparative Law, Politics and International Relations, Latin American Government, Politics and Policy
    Series:
    ASCL Studies in Comparative Law
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    The North-South global divide is as much about perception and prejudice as it is about economic disparities. Latin America is no less ruled by hegemonic misrepresentations of its national legal systems. The European image of its laws mostly upholds legal legitimacy and international comity. By contrast, diagnoses of excessive legal formalism, an extraordinary gap between law and action, inappropriate European transplants, elite control, pervasive inefficiencies, and massive corruption call for wholesale law reform. Misrepresented to the level of becoming fictions, these ideas nevertheless have profound influence on US foreign policy, international agency programs, private disputes, and academic research. Jorge L. Esquirol identifies their materialization in global governance - mostly undermining Latin American states in legal geopolitics - and their deployment by private parties in transnational litigation and international arbitration. Bringing unrelenting legal realism to comparative law, this study explores new questions in international relations, focusing on the power dynamics among national legal systems.

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