Lawyers: Modern and Colonial

Authors

  • César Bazán Seminario Arnold Bergstraesser Institut

    Abogado, activista e investigador. Doctorando del Instituto de Sociología de la Universidad de Friburgo, ALMA Fellow en el Arnold Bergstraesser Institut, máster en Estudios Latinoamericanos por la Universidad Libre de Berlín y abogado por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Miembro del comité directivo de Informationstelle Peru e.V. y exmiembro del comité directivo del Instituto de Defensa Legal.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18800/iusetveritas.201901.013

Keywords:

Sociology of Law, coloniality, modernity, lawyers, matrix of domination

Abstract

Following the lines of decolonial thought, I suggest that lawyers reproduce patterns of the matrix of colonial power through their actions. In the first part of this article I describe what the decolonial option is, while in the second part I analyze lawyers and law schools paying close attention to the signs of coloniality/modernity within them. As a result, I identify lawyers as the legal guardinas of colonial power and law schools as places that reproduce the logic of modernity/coloniality.

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Published

2019-10-16

How to Cite

Bazán Seminario, C. (2019). Lawyers: Modern and Colonial. IUS ET VERITAS, (58), 226–245. https://doi.org/10.18800/iusetveritas.201901.013

Issue

No. 58 (2019)

Section

Interdisciplinaria

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