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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María Jesús Ithurria Benavente, María Elisa Morales Ortiz

Editors’ Note: Engaging with Foreign Law and Comparative Law in Latin America

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Cristián Aedo Barrena, Renzo Munita Marambio

Some problems raised by the theory of the equivalence of conditions and the theory of adequate causation in civil liability

María Elisa Morales Ortiz

Two Examples of Legal Transplants in Chilean Consumer Law

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Constanza León Montero

General Interest as a Differentiating Criterion Between the Chilean and Spanish Appeal for Cassation on the Merits

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Patricia Toledo-Zúñiga, María Pilar Navarro-Schiappacasse

Procedural Aspects of the General Anti-Avoidance Rule. Comparative Analysis of the Cases of Chile and Spain