Transnational Diffusion of Legal Concepts

9310007鲁杰罗该项目将考察欧洲法学对拉丁美洲现代化进程的影响。法律专业人员和对有关人类行为的科学理论的法律解释在阿根廷历史和社会的形成中发挥了关键作用。尽管阿根廷当时是一个后殖民国家，但它仍然是欧洲“非正式帝国”的一部分。因此，阿根廷的现代化进程，就像拉丁美洲的大部分地区一样，受到欧洲模式的很大影响，并与欧洲模式交织在一起。这项研究的重点是阿根廷，以阐明拉丁美洲和欧洲之间存在的复杂的知识和文化关系，以及法学共享的更广泛的国际世界和历史。其跨学科方法将汇集阿根廷和欧洲的各种已出版著作和以前未被研究过的法学档案材料，以便更深入地了解科学思想的跨国传播如何影响人们的生活和行动。这一研究将为我们对法律与社会关系中跨国过程的经验认识和理论理解做出重要贡献。调查员将审查三个主要来源：刑事法庭案件的卷宗、拘留机构的档案记录和出版的法律论文。实地研究将在布宜诺斯艾利斯、伦敦、巴黎、罗马和博洛尼亚进行。调查员将出版一本关于19世纪阿根廷法律和社会的专著，并收集翻译和编辑的原始文本，记录这一时期的法律科学。***

9310007 RUGGIERO This project will examine the impact of European legal science on the modernizing processes of Latin America. Legal professionals and legal interpretations of scientific theories about human behavior played a key role in the shaping of Argentine history and society. Although Argentina was a post-colonial nation at this time, it remained part of Europe's "informal empire." Thus, Argentina's modernizing processes, as was true of much of Latin America, were greatly influenced by and intertwined with European models. The study focuses on Argentina to illuminate the complex intellectual and cultural relationship that existed between Latin America and Europe, and the broader international world and history that legal science shared. Its interdisciplinary approach will result in bringing together a variety of published works and and previously unstudied archival materials on legal science found in both Argentina and Europe to provide a deeper insight into how the transnational diffusion of scientific thought influenced lives and actions. This research will make an important contribution to our empirical knowledge and theoretical understanding of transnational processes in the relationship between law and society. The investigator will examine three main sources: the dossiers of criminal court cases, the archival records of institutions of detention, and published legal treatises. The field research will be conducted in Buenos Aires, London, Paris, Rome and Bologna. The investigator will produce a monograph on law and society in nineteenth century Argentina and a collection of primary texts, translated and edited, which document legal science in this period. ***