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2 - The Fiction of Failed Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2019

Jorge L. Esquirol
Jorge L. Esquirol
Affiliation:
Florida International University
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Latin America’s kinship with Europe is not the unrivaled image of law in the region. A very different paradigm also prevails. From this perspective, underdevelopment, authoritarianism, crime, and corruption overwhelm the formal legal order. The laws do not generate economic development and political stability. Public officials prove incapable of separating their legal duties from personal gain. Courts and law enforcement are unequal to their tasks. Taken all together, it amounts to a quite damning picture. National legal institutions have, by most accounts, failed.

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Ruling the Law
Legitimacy and Failure in Latin American Legal Systems
 , pp. 58 - 136
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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