Law and Christianity in Latin America The Work of Great Jurists

This volume examines the lives of more than thirty-five key personalities in Latin American law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law in their countries and the region. The book is a significant contribution to our ability to understand the work and perspectives of jurists and their effect on legal development in Latin America. The individuals selected for study exhibit wide-ranging areas of expertise from private law and codification, through national public law and constitutional law, to international developments that left their mark on the region and the world. The chapters discuss the jurists within their historical, intellectual, and political context. The editors selected jurists after extensive consultation with legal historians in various countries of the region looking at the jurist’s particular merits, contributions to law in general, religious perspective, and importance within the specific country and period under consideration. Giving the work a diversity of international and methodological perspectives, the chapters have been written by distinguished legal scholars and historians from Latin America and around the world. The collection will appeal to scholars, lawyers, and students interested in the interplay between law and religion. Political, social, legal, and religious historians among other readers will find, for the first time in English, authoritative treatments of the region’s essential legal thinkers and authors. Students and other who may not read Spanish will appreciate these clear, accessible, and engaging English studies of the region’s great jurists.

ForewordJohn Witte, Jr. IntroductionM. C. Mirow Nineteenth-Century Jurists 1 Juan Germán Roscio (Venezuela, 1763 –1821)Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo 2 Andrés Bello (Venezuela and Chile, 1781–1865) Alejandro Guzmán 3 Félix Varela y Morales (Cuba, 1788–1853) M. C. Mirow 4 Mariano Egaña (Chile, 1793–1846)Javier Francisco Infante Martin 5 Justo Donoso Vivanco (Chile, 1800–1868)Cristóbal García-Huidobro Becerra 6 Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield (Argentina, 1800–1875) Abelardo Levaggi 7 José Bernardo Couto y Pérez (Mexico, 1803–1862)Óscar Cruz Barney 8 Teodosio Lares (Mexico, 1806–1870) Brian Hamnett 9 Bartolomé Herrera Vélez (Peru, 1808–1864)Fernán Altuve-Febres Lores 10 Juan Nepomuceno Rodríguez de San Miguel (Mexico, 1808–1877)Juan Pablo Salazar Andreu 11 Juan Bautista Alberdi (Argentina, 1810–1884)Ezequiel Abásolo 12 Clemente de Jesús Munguía Núñez (Mexico, 1810–1868)Jorge Adame Goddard 13 Eduardo Acevedo Maturana (Uruguay, 1815–1863) Juan Carlos Frontera 14 Augusto Teixeira de Freitas (Brazil, 1816–1883)Alfredo de J. Flores 15 Justo Arosemena Quesada (Panama and Colombia, 1817–1896)Hernán Alejandro Olano García and M. C. Mirow 16 Tristán Narvaja (Argentina and Uruguay, 1819–1877) Viviana Kluger 17 Gabriel García Moreno (Ecuador, 1821–1875)Peter V. N. Henderson 18 Julián Viso (Venezuela, 1822–1900)Gustavo Adolfo Vaamonde 19 Rafael Fernández Concha (Chile, 1833–1883)Raúl Madrid 20 Tobias Barreto de Meneses (Brazil, 1839–1889)Marcio Ricardo Staffen 21 José Manuel Estrada (Argentina, 1842–1894)Agustín Parise 22 Miguel Antonio Caro Tobar (Colombia, 1845–1909)Eduardo Herrera and M. C. Mirow 23 Fernando Vélez Barrientos (Colombia, 1847–1935)Victor M. Uribe-Uran Twentieth-Century Jurists 24 Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirvén (Cuba, 1855–1961)Juan Bosco Amores Carredano 25 Víctor Andrés Belaúnde Diez Canseco (Peru, 1883–1966)Martín Santiváñez Vivanco 26 José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma (Peru, 1885–1944)José de la Puente Brunke 27 Manuel Herrera y Lasso (Mexico, 1890–1967)Kif Augustine-Adams 28 Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (Brazil, 1893–1991)Ernesto Pimentel and Paul Sekscenski 29 Julio Tobar Donoso (Ecuador, 1894–1981)Álvaro Mejía-Salazar 30 Tomás Darío Casares (Argentina, 1895–1977)Juan Cianciardo and Marcelo Fernández Peralta 31 Pedro Lira Urquieta (Chile, 1900–1981)Cristián Villalonga Torrijo 32. Arturo Enrique Sampay (Argentina, 1911–1977)Susana Ramella 33 Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez (Venezuela, 1916–2009)Carlos García Soto 34 Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (El Salvador, 1917–1980)Rafael Domingo 35 Germán Bidart Campos (Argentina, 1927–2004)Santiago Legarre 36 Juan Larrea Holguín (Ecuador, 1927–2006)Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba 37 Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito (Brazil, 1942–2009)Robert J. Cottrol

M. C. Mirow, Professor of Law, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA. Rafael Domingo, Spruill Family Professor of Law and Religion, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Álvaro d’Ors Professor of Law, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.