Latin American Legal Studies is a law journal which publishes original articles that meet strict scholar standards, on miscellaneous legal subjects with a philosophical, doctrinal, comparative, or interdisciplinary approach, that relates to one or more Latin American systems, as well as comparative work between one Latin American system and a non-Latin American system, written in English and Spanish. The journal also publishes articles based on the Law & Society approach. Manuscripts submitted to Latin American Legal Studies are subject to double-blind peer review. The journal is supported by the Faculty of Law of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.

Latin American Legal Studies publishes two issues per year in January and August. The journal is open access, without publication or access fee, and is published in PDF format. Approved manuscripts are published in the order, volume and number defined by the Editorial Team.

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Jenny García Ruales, Germán Oscar Johannsen, Bruno Rodrigues de Lima

Editors' note: Law and the Amazon

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The ‘Unconsulted Consultation’: Indigenous Self-Determination and Plural Legalities in the Yasuní Referendum in Ecuador

Carolina Bejarano

The Amazon as a Planetary Legal Site: Reading International Law in the Anthropocene Through the Amazon

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Deo Campos Dutra, Guilherme Roman Borges

In Search of a Theory: Premises, Possibilities, and Propositions in the Formulation of Another Theory of Legal Comparison

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Carolina Stange Azevedo Moulin

Clausewitz in the Amazon

João Victor Gianecchini

The Convergence between Modern Slavery and Environmental Degradation in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Exploring the Social-Environmental Victimization Nexus

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