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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Marianne Gonzalez Le Saux, Daniel Sierra Guajardo

Mónica Madariaga, the Female Lawyer of the Dictatorship: Gender Performance and Professional Ascent in an Authoritarian Regime (Chile 1974- 1985)

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Sebastián Campos

Communicative reason and idea of substantive justice in Contract law. Regarding the control of content of non-negotiated clauses

Osvaldo Lagos

Related party transactions regulation in large intragroup transactions in Chile: law in books and law in action

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Guillermo Caballero, Rocío Ávila Vergara

The Fresh Start of the Bankrupt Legal Entity: Myth or Reality

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Boris Loayza Mosqueira

Are non-formalized cohabiting relationship a title that justifies the occupation of the occupant? An approach from the judgements of the Supreme Court