The Origins of Legal Rule in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

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”.