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The Origins of Legal Rule in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
04 March 2019, 5:30 pm–7:30 pm
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Daisy Voake
Location
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Room 103Institute of the Americas51 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0PNUnited Kingdom
Dr. Timo Schaefer (PhD 2015, Indiana University Bloomington) is author of Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), a groundbreaking study that explores the formation of Mexico's post-colonial legal system and proposes a new theory about the cultural foundations of legal rule in the modern world. Dr. Schaefer was the winner of the LASA Mexico Section’s Social Science Book Award (2018); he also received the 2015 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in Humanities and Fine Arts for his thesis, “The Social Origins of Justice: Mexico in the Age of Utopian Failure, 1821-1870.” We are delighted to welcome him to Oxford (28/2) and London (4/3) where he will discuss “The Origins of Legal Rule in Nineteenth-Century Mexico”.
About the Speaker
Dr. Timo Schaefer
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