El problema de la administración de justicia “lega” y “experta” en Chile siglo XIX. El valor heurístico de los expedientes judiciales

Brangier, Víctor

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“…A la Corte de La Serena le correspondían una serie de tareas en materia de fiscalización, que se concretaban fundamentalmente a través de las visitas a los tribunales inferiores de su distrito, realizadas de forma ordinaria cada bimestre y extraordinaria, cuando hubiera indicios de irregularidades 139 . En general, las visitas fueron establecidas para informar del estado de la administración de justicia, "en vista de preparar su reforma, y corregir los errores y abusos observados" 140 , operando como mecanismo de control sobre la justicia lega 141 .…”

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La Corte de Apelaciones de La Serena: orígenes, instalación y primeras décadas de funcionamiento (1845-1875)

Bravo Silva

2023

Rev. estud. hist.-juríd.

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La Corte de Apelaciones de La Serena: orígenes, instalación y primeras décadas de funcionamiento (1845-1875)

Bravo Silva

2023

Rev. estud. hist.-juríd.

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“…The courts, which should have been supervising the abogados de turno , were indifferent, and no control existed over the quality of their defenses (Álvarez Jofré 1897; Álvarez Andrews 1927). Furthermore, by the late nineteenth century, the judicial system in Chile was moving to replace lay judges with professional courts (Brangier 2012; Bilot 2013). According to Valentín Letelier, a law professor and the President of the University of Chile, these reforms had only increased the need for the lawyers' intervention … [thus] they have benefited only those who can afford these services … As for the poor, they are always the victims, whether they abandon their rights, letting usurpation triumph, whether they waste in judicial expenses much more than what they are claiming.…”

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Legal Aid, Social Workers, and the Redefinition of the Legal Profession in Chile, 1925–1960

Saux¹

2017

Law soc. inq.

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This article examines the history of the Chilean Legal Aid Service (Servicio de Asistencia Judicial) from the 1920s until the 1960s. It argues that with the emergence of the “social question”—the concern for improving the lower classes' working and living conditions to promote the nation's modernization and prevent political radicalization—the Chilean legal profession committed to legal aid reform to escape a professional identity crisis. Legal aid allowed lawyers to claim they had a new “social function” advocating on behalf of the poor. However, within legal aid offices, lawyers interacted with female social workers who acted as gatekeepers, mediators, and translators between the lawyers and the poor. This gendered professional complementarity in legal aid offices helped lawyers to put limits on their new “social function”: it allowed them to maintain legal aid as a part‐time activity that did not challenge the structure of the legal system as a whole.

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“…The courts, which should have been supervising the abogados de turno, were indifferent, and no control existed over the quality of their defenses ( Alvarez Jofr e 1897; Alvarez Andrews 1927). Furthermore, by the late nineteenth century, the judicial system in Chile was moving to replace lay judges with professional courts (Brangier 2012;Bilot 2013). According to Valent ın Letelier, a law professor and the President of the University of Chile, these reforms had only increased the need for the lawyers' intervention .…”

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2017

Law and Social Inquiry

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This article examines the history of the Chilean Legal Aid Service (Servicio de Asistencia Judicial) from the 1920s until the 1960s. It argues that with the emergence of the "social question"-the concern for improving the lower classes' working and living conditions to promote the nation's modernization and prevent political radicalizationthe Chilean legal profession committed to legal aid reform to escape a professional identity crisis. Legal aid allowed lawyers to claim they had a new "social function" advocating on behalf of the poor. However, within legal aid offices, lawyers interacted with female social workers who acted as gatekeepers, mediators, and translators between the lawyers and the poor. This gendered professional complementarity in legal aid offices helped lawyers to put limits on their new "social function": it allowed them to maintain legal aid as a part-time activity that did not challenge the structure of the legal system as a whole. Marianne Gonz alez Le Saux is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Columbia University and a lawyer from the University of Chile. The author is especially grateful to Nara Milanich, C ecile Vigour, Susanna Ferguson, Rachel G. Newman, and Tania Bhattacharyya for their thoughtful feedback in revising this article. She is also thankful for the challenging comments of the three anonymous reviewers at LSI. Earlier versions of this work have also benefited from feedback from Pablo Piccato, Caterina Pizzigoni, Barbara Weinstein, and the regular meetings of the Columbia Latin American History Workshop. The research on which this article is based has been possible thanks to the following fellowships:

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El problema de la administración de justicia “lega” y “experta” en Chile siglo XIX. El valor heurístico de los expedientes judiciales

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La Corte de Apelaciones de La Serena: orígenes, instalación y primeras décadas de funcionamiento (1845-1875)

La Corte de Apelaciones de La Serena: orígenes, instalación y primeras décadas de funcionamiento (1845-1875)

Legal Aid, Social Workers, and the Redefinition of the Legal Profession in Chile, 1925–1960

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