Law and Christianity in Latin America
The Work of Great Jurists
Law and Religion Series

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.

Foreword

Introduction

Nineteenth-Century Jurists

1 Juan Germán Roscio (Venezuela, 1763 –1821)

2 Andrés Bello (Venezuela and Chile, 1781–1865)

3 Félix Varela y Morales (Cuba, 1788–1853)

4 Mariano Egaña (Chile, 1793–1846)

5 Justo Donoso Vivanco (Chile, 1800–1868)

6 Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield (Argentina, 1800–1875)

7 José Bernardo Couto y Pérez (Mexico, 1803–1862)

8 Teodosio Lares (Mexico, 1806–1870)

9 Bartolomé Herrera Vélez (Peru, 1808–1864)

10 Juan Nepomuceno Rodríguez de San Miguel (Mexico, 1808–1877)

11 Juan Bautista Alberdi (Argentina, 1810–1884)

12 Clemente de Jesús Munguía Núñez (Mexico, 1810–1868)

13 Eduardo Acevedo Maturana (Uruguay, 1815–1863)

14 Augusto Teixeira de Freitas (Brazil, 1816–1883)

15 Justo Arosemena Quesada (Panama and Colombia, 1817–1896)

16 Tristán Narvaja (Argentina and Uruguay, 1819–1877)

17 Gabriel García Moreno (Ecuador, 1821–1875)

18 Julián Viso (Venezuela, 1822–1900)

19 Rafael Fernández Concha (Chile, 1833–1883)

20 Tobias Barreto de Meneses (Brazil, 1839–1889)

21 José Manuel Estrada (Argentina, 1842–1894)

22 Miguel Antonio Caro Tobar (Colombia, 1845–1909)

23 Fernando Vélez Barrientos (Colombia, 1847–1935)

Twentieth-Century Jurists

24 Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirvén (Cuba, 1855–1961)

25 Víctor Andrés Belaúnde Diez Canseco (Peru, 1883–1966)

26 José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma (Peru, 1885–1944)

27 Manuel Herrera y Lasso (Mexico, 1890–1967)

28 Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (Brazil, 1893–1991)

29 Julio Tobar Donoso (Ecuador, 1894–1981)

30 Tomás Darío Casares (Argentina, 1895–1977)

31 Pedro Lira Urquieta (Chile, 1900–1981)

32. Arturo Enrique Sampay (Argentina, 1911–1977)

33 Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez (Venezuela, 1916–2009)

34 Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (El Salvador, 1917–1980)

35 Germán Bidart Campos (Argentina, 1927–2004)

36 Juan Larrea Holguín (Ecuador, 1927–2006)

37 Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito (Brazil, 1942–2009)

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.