Debates, Controversies, and Conflicts over Sources of Law in Nineteenth-Century Mexico and Brazil

Conference on Latin American History 56
Saturday, January 4, 2014: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Congressional Room A (Omni Shoreham)
Chair:
Dain E. Borges, University of Chicago
Papers:
Who Wrote the Complete Treatise? Plagiarism, Codification, and Treatise Writing in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Timothy MacDowell James, University of South Carolina Beaufort
Secularization or Reformation? The Religious Origins of Civil Marriage in Mexico
Pablo Mijangos, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas
Slavery and Law Making in Nineteenth Century Brazil
Keila Grinberg, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
"To See a Man’s Face": The Legal Importance of Nighttime in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, in Code and Practice
Amy Chazkel, Queens College, City University of New York
Comment:
Dain E. Borges, University of Chicago
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