Legal Barbarians

Daniel Bonilla Maldonado is Full Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. He has held a Fulbright Fellowship and visiting positions at, among others, Yale Law School, Sciences Po-Paris School of Law and Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is the editor of Constitutionalism of the Global South (Cambridge, 2013).

• 1. Introduction; 2. The legal identity of the global south narrative and comparative law; 3. Comparative instrumental studies Montesquieu, geography and law; 4. Comparative legislative studies H. S. Maine, history, progress, and the comparative method; 5. Comparative law as an autonomous discipline legal taxonomies and families; 6. The critical academic of law: resistance and emancipation.

'… Legal Barbarians is an important contribution to the discipline of comparative law … The book is also very well referenced, constituting an excellent bibliographic resource for the critical comparative jurist. Finally, it is also very pleasant to read. Concentrated in less than 200 pages - which is rare - it makes us think and travel thanks to its sometimes poetic analogies and images …' Eugénie Mérieau, Droit et Société (from French)