This volume of essays examines how the legal systems of the chief countries of Latin America and Mediterranean Europe--Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, France, Italy, and Spain--changed in the last quarter of the 20th century. >

Latin legal cultures in the age of globalization, Rogelio Perez-Perdomo and Lawrence Friedman; Argentina - the effects of democratic institutionalization, Maria Ines Bergoglio; Brazil - the road of conflict bound for total justice, Eliane Botelho Junqueria; Law and legal culture in Chile (1974-1999), Edmundo Fuenzalida Faivovich; Justice and society in Colombia - a sociolegal analysis of Colombian courts, Rodrigo Uprimny, Cesar Rodriguez, and Mauricio Garcia-Villegas; The rise of lawyers in France, Anne Boigeol; The Italian legal system 1945-1999, Sabino Cassese; Italian styles - criminal justice and the rise of an active magistracy, David S. Clark; "Faraway, so close!" - the rule of law and legal change in Mexico (1970-2000), Sergio Lopez-Ayllon and Hector Fix-Fierro; Citizens running to the courts - the legal system in Puerto Rico and the modernization process, Blanca G. Silvestrini; The organization, functioning, and evaluation of the Spanish judicial system (1975-2000) - a case-study in legal culture, Jose Juan Toharia; Venezuela 1958-1999 - the legal system in an impaired democracy, Rogelio Perez-Perdomo; Patterns of foreign legal investment and state transformation in Latin America, Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth; Slade - a memoir, John Henry Merryman.