Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

Abstract

The Special Edition of Latin American Legal Studies gathers some of the presentations made at the Second Summer Course “Critical Theory of Law and Social Justice in the Americas” (February 27-28, 2023) and at the International Congress “Promoting Critical Theories and Practices in the Legal Cultures of the Americas: South-North Exchange on Theory, Culture and Law” (March 2-3, 2023), both held in Montevideo, on the campus of the Universidad Católica of Uruguay.

The overall objective of the volume is to critically reflect on the relationships between law, justice and society in Latin America, based on complex and contingent phenomena. For this reason, a group of critical theorists from various regions of the hemisphere met to discuss practical problems in applying socio-legal theories to some of the main current social problems and public policy issues. This provided a space for debate focused on South-North relations, and on issues that affect or constitute South-North polarities, in order to strengthen critical theory and praxis in hemispheric terms.

The Edition promotes critical theories and praxis that contribute to questioning and transforming current law and its epistemologies. The eight articles gathered in the volume not only offer critical perspectives, but also propose that, through the law, it is possible to improve the quality of life of the least advantaged social sectors or collectives and thus achieve greater levels of social justice and social equity in the different regions of our continent. The articles remind us that law, in addition to its normative and value dimensions, is a social fact, which implies looking at law from the sidewalk of interdisciplinarity.

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