On the Edge of Turbulent Times
Transatlantic Readings on Political Institutions by Mexican and Argentinian Law Alumni, 1920s–1940s
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Abstract
This article tries to reflect on how jurists linked to the law schools at the University of Buenos Aires and the National Autonomous University of Mexico understood the problems of the Latin American representative system and the new features of the Western world's political crisis. It does so by focusing on the BA and PhD theses produced in both schools. We consider these written theses as privileged mirrors that reflect legal “cultures” and knowledge-transfer from an Atlantic perspective. They were also crucial mediums for new lawyers to reflect those changes in critical readings of European and American authors. Moreover, the article argues that these legal scholars played a key role in the circulation of legal and political knowledge in their local academic units.
Contributor Notes
Ignacio A. López holds a PhD in History from the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina). He is currently Assistant Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in the Institute of Argentine and American History “Dr. Emilio Ravignani”, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires and Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Michigan and at the History Research Unit (MoSa Research Group) at KU Leuven. He has published journal articles, books, and chapters of books about Argentina's political history in the interwar years. Email: ignacioalopez@uca.edu.ar