Law at the End of the Day

Larry Catá Backer's comments on current issues in transnational law and policy. These essays focus on the constitution of regulatory communities (political, economic, and religious) as they manage their constituencies and the conflicts between them. The context is globalization. This is an academic field-free zone: expect to travel "without documents" through the sometimes strongly guarded boundaries of international relations, constitutional, international, comparative, and corporate law.

Friday, June 26, 2020

Just Published--Latin American Research Review Vol. 55(2)

I am delighted to pass along links to the articles recently published in the Latin American Research Review (Vol 55).

There is much worth reading here, especially the studies of the structures of race infused social organization and the economics of ethno-migration in Spain. But also of interest--in particular to students of Cuba (and now developed states)--is the examination of the development of the informal sector and its consequences for public law and management.

Vol. 55, No. 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Sociology

Residential Segregation by Skin Color: Brazil Revisited
Rubia da Rocha Valente, Brian J. L. Berry

Structures of Opportunity and Constraints on Socioeconomic Integration in Three Segregated Favelas of Salvador, Brazil
Stephan Treuke

Planning to Go Back Home Because of the Economic Crisis? Evidence from Short-Term Return Intentions of Bolivian Migrants in Spain
Sònia Parella, Alisa Petroff

Politics and International Relations

Authoritarianism, Social Dominance, and Contesting Human Rights in Latin America
Krystin Krause

Economics

Débil competitividad e institucionalidad: El crecimiento no sostenible del modelo informal
Juan Arroyo

History

O poder da palavra falada: Gênese e sentidos dos manuais para discursos no Brasil da virada do século XIX para o século XX
Jefferson José Queler

Anthropology

Del crepúsculo del gamonalismo a la etnitización de la cuestión agraria en Chimborazo (Ecuador)
Víctor Bretón Solo de Zaldívar

Literature and Cultural Studies

I Monster: Embodying Trans and Travesti Resistance in Latin America
Joseph M. Pierce

Distorsión y silencio en el Lienzo de Tlaxcala (1892) de Alfredo Chavero: Notas metodológicas
Jannette Amaral-Rodriguez

¿Cómo pensar la acción artístico-cultural de la dictadura chilena? Siete cuestiones para su interpretación
Isabel Jara Hinojosa

Book Review Essays

Blood, Nation, Science, and Language: Essentializing Race from the Sixteenth Century to the Present
Nancy P. Appelbaum

Interrogating Culture in Latin America
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea

Cutting the Populist Knot
George Ciccariello-Maher

Assessing Evo’s Bolivia: Inclusion, Ethnicity, and Class
John Crabtree

The Challenges of Gender Representation in Latin America
Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer and Kaitlin Senk

Criminal Violence in Latin America
Juan Albarracín and Nicholas Barnes

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At the end of the day, law?

. . . . Emperors and kings

Are but obeyed in their several provinces,

Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds;

But his domain that exceeds in this

Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man.

A sound magician is a mighty god.

* * *

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,

And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,

That sometimes grew within this learned man.

Faustus is gone; regard his hellish fall,

Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise

Only to wonder at unlawful things,

Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits

To practise more than heavenly power permits.

Christopher Marlowe, "Dr. Faustus" (before 1593)

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