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Compiled by Professor Michael DeBow, Samford University

Last updated April 28, 2014.

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COMPARATIVE LAW

Oxford University Comparative Law Forum, ouclf.iuscomp.org/
American Journal of Comparative Law, comparativelaw.metapress.com/home/main.mpx
Electronic Journal of Comparative Law, www.ejcl.org/
NYU's global research tools, www.law.nyu.edu/global/researchtools/index.htm
NYU's international/comparative/foreign law page, www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/index.html
American Society of Comparative Law, www.comparativelaw.org/
Juris Diversitas comparative law blog, www.jurisdiversitas.blogspot.com/
Comparative Law Blog, www.comparativelawblog.blogspot.com/
Center for Comparative Constitutionalism (University of Chicago), ccc.uchicago.edu/links.html
Comparative Law Gateway (Tulane University Law School),
www.law.tulane.edu/tlscenters/eason/index.aspx?id=8434

Em portugues:

A CONSTITUIÇÃO DOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DA AMÉRICA, constitutioncenter.org/media/files/Port-Constitution%208-19.pdf

** Wikipedia, pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1gina_principal
This is a great resource! When you've found the English language page on a subject -- for example, King Henry II of England -- look at the "Languages" box at the bottom of the left hand margin of the page. Is there a version of this page em Portugues? There is. Unfortunately, not all the pages have been translated into Portugues. But many have been!

"2009 Indice de Liberdade Economica: A relação entre oportunidade econômica e prosperidade"
www.heritage.org/index/PDF/2009/Index2009_Portugese.pdf

Direito e Economia blog, www.bloglawandeconomics.org/
Instituto de Direito e Economia do Rio Grande do Sul,

Associacao Latino Americana e do Caribe de Direito e Economia (ALACDE), www.alacde.org/portugues/index.htm
scroll down, box on left hand margin contains names of many scholars working on Latin American topics
annual papers archive, escholarship.org/uc/bple_alacde

"Introducao a teoria economica dos 'property right'" por Rodrigo Leite Prado (2002)

Instituto de Estudos Empresariais, www.iee.com.br/
This organization is decscribed on pages 4-5 of this magazine (in English).

Instituto Liberal, www.institutoliberal.org.br/

Instituto Millenium, www.imil.org.br/

Centro Interdisciplinar de Etica e Economia Personalista,
www.cieep.org.br/

Instituto Ludwig von Mises Brasil, www.mises.org.br/

Causa Liberal (Lisbon; "associacao para o estudo, debate e
        divulgacao do Liberismo Classico"),
        www.causaliberal.net/
        Blog

Olavo de Carvalho, www.olavodecarvalho.org/
Ubiratan Iorio, www.ubirataniorio.org/
Nivaldo Cordeiro, www.nivaldocordeiro.net/

Acton Institute para o Estudo da Religião e da Liberdade, pt.acton.org/

Intercambio Inter-Americano de Politicas Publicas (Manhattan Institute, New York),
www.manhattan-institute.org/html/port_iape.htm/

Banco de Dados Politicos das Americas

Latin American Network Information Center, lanic.utexas.edu/indexpor.html
"Direito," lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/law/indexpor.html

Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, knightcenter.utexas.edu/pt-br/

Associação de Estudos Latino-Americanos, lasa.international.pitt.edu/por/index.asp

World Bank page on Brasil, www.worldbank.org/pt/country/brazil

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Centro das Americas,
www.frbatlanta.org/americascenter/ac_resources/portugues

Base de Datos de Historia Economia de America Latina, moxlad.fcs.edu.uy/pt.html

Professor Mariana Mota Prado, U. of Toronto Faculty of Law,
http://www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/full-time-faculty/mariana-mota-prado

Professor Ivan Cesar Ribeiro (USP), Robin Hood vs. King John Redistribution: How do Local Judges Decide Cases in Brazil? (2007), em portuguese, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=961425

En espanol:

Frederic Bastiat, http://bastiat.org/es/
La Ley (1850), www.elcato.org/publicaciones/ensayos/ens-2002-08-16.html

Douglass North, Instituciones, ideologia y desempeno economico,
www.elcato.org/publicaciones/ensayos/ens-2003-01-24.html

El Banco Mundial, temas,
www.bancomundial.org/temas.html

Online books and articles en espanol at
HACER, www.hacer.org/library.php
Cato, "los classicos," www.elcato.org/publicaciones/losclasicos-index.html

Peru:
Instituto Libertad y Democracia, www.ild.org.pe/
"EL OTRO SENDERO" por Hernando de Soto,
www.ild.org.pe/component/content/article/164-the-othe-path/top-chap1/855-el-otro-sendero-capitulo-1

Argentina:
Fundacion Bases, www.fundacionbases.org/
Congreso "La Escuela Austriaca en el Siglo XXI,"
www.austrianeconomicsconference.org/esp/inicio_esp.php
Fundacion Libertad, www.libertad.org.ar/
Fundacion Atlas 1853, www.atlas.org.ar/
Instituto Hayek, www.hayek.org.ar/
Economia para Todos, www.economiaparatodos.net/
Escuela Superior de Economia y Administracion de Empreses, www.eseade.edu.ar/

Chile:
La Politica de la Libertad, www.policyofliberty.net/sindex.html

Guatemala:
Universidad Francisco Marroquin, www.ufm.edu/index.php/Portal
    Apuntes de Economia y Politica
    Laissez-Faire: Revista de la facultad de Ciencias Economicas
    Revista electronica del EPRI
    recursos digitales para la educacion

Espana:
Jesus Huerta de Soto, www.jesushuertadesoto.com/

USA:
Instituto Cato, www.elcato.org/
    ("libertad individual, gobierno limitado, mercados libres y paz")
El Instituto Independiente, www.elindependent.org/
    Blog
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, es.acton.org/
Centro Interamericano de Politicas Publicas (Manhattan Institute, New York),
    www.manhattan-institute.org/html/sp_iape.htm
Asociacion Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Derecho y Economia (ALACDE)
    alacde.org/espanol/index.htm
Center for International Private Enterprise,
    www.cipe.org/language-intro/spanish
Sacerdotes Supremos y Filosofos Humildes: La Batalla por el Alma de la Economia,
    Boettke, Coyne & Leeson, en Revista de Economia y Derecho,
    www.ccoyne.com/Revista_de_Econom_a_y_Derecho_-_Final.pdf
Economic Freedom Network, zipped file of a power-point presentation en espanol,
    www.freetheworld.com/spanish.ZIP
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Centro de las Americas,
    www.frbatlanta.org/americascenter/ac_resources/espanol/

In English:

Democracy, Judicial Attitudes and Heterogeneity: The Civil Versus Common Law Tradition (2009), by Carmine Guerriero,
www.econ.cam.ac.uk/dae/repec/cam/pdf/cwpe0917.pdf
Abstract: A key issue in the design of a legal system is the choice of the mechanism aggregating preferences over the level of deterrence. While under Case law appellate judges' biases offset set one another at the cost of volatility of precedents, under Statute law the Legislator chooses certain rules that are biased only when bribes are accepted: i.e., when political institutions are weak and/or the preference heterogeneity is sufficiently high. Thus, only in the last scenario, Case law can outperform Statute law. Also, institutions fostering limited discretion by lower courts improve the performance of Case law. Instrumental variables estimates based on historical data from 156 countries con rm this prediction.

Recent papers on Brazilian topics, available for download through the SSRN website --
Robin Hood vs. King John Redistribution: How do Local Judges Decide Cases in Brazil? (2005), by USP law professor Ivan Cesar Ribeiro, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=938174
Do Brazilian Judges Favor the Weak Party? (2006) by Ribeiro and Brisa L.M. Ferrao, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=938176
Corporate Governance and Ownership Structure in Brazil (2007), papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=976198
Class Actions in Brazil: A Model for Civil Law Countries (2003), by University of Houston law professor Antonio Gidi,
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=903188
another article on this subject by Gidi, en espanol, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=903775

The Mystery of Brazil, by American public choice economist Gordon Tullock (2004),
www.dur.ac.uk/john.ashworth/EPCS/Papers/Tullock.pdf

<>The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins, by Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes & Andrei Shleifer, 46 Journal of Economic Literature 285 (June 2008),
    scholar.harvard.edu/shleifer/publications/economic-consequences-legal-origins
    Abstract: In the last decade, economists have produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical origin of a country’s laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules and regulations, as well as with economic outcomes. We summarize this evidence and attempt a unified interpretation. We also address several objections to the empirical claim that legal origins matter. Finally, we assess the implications of this research for economic reform. <>

Legal Origin?, by Daniel Klerman & Paul G. Mahoney, Journal of Comparative Economics (2007),
    lawweb.usc.edu/users/dklerman/documents/Klerman.LegalOrigin.JCompEcon.pdf
    Abstract: Recent empirical work shows that countries whose legal systems are based on English common law differ systematically from those whose legal systems are based on French civil law. Glaeser and Shleifer trace this divergence to England’s adoption of the jury system and France’s adoption of Romano-canonical procedure in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries [Glaeser & Shleifer, Legal Origins, 2002]. They argue that these choices implied greater centralization of justice in France than in England. We examine the historical evidence in detail and find that there was no attempt to decentralize litigation in medieval England, and in fact, prior to the French Revolution, justice was more centralized in England than in France. The different trial procedures, moreover, did not put the
two countries’ legal systems on sharply different paths. Rather, the systems diverged as the result of political choices made in the mid-seventeenth through early nineteenth centuries. <>

Legal Origins, by Edward Glaeser & Andrei Shleifer, 117 Quarterly Journal of Economics 1193 (2002),
    scholar.harvard.edu/shleifer/publications/legal-origins
    Abstract: A central requirement in the design of a legal system is the protection of law enforcer from coercion from litigants through either violence or bribes. The higher the risk of coercion, the greater the need for protection and control of law enforcers by the state. Such control, however, also makes law enforcers beholden to the state, and politicizes justice. This perspective explains why, starting in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the relatively more peaceful England developed trials by indepdent juries, while the less peaceful France relied on state-employed judgest to resolve disputes. It may also explain many differences between common and civil law traditions with respect to both the structure of legal systems and the observed social and economic outcomes. <>

Do Institutions Cause Growth? (2004), by Edward Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florncio Lopez-de-Silanes & Andrei Shleifer,
    http://scholar.harvard.edu/shleifer/publications/do-institutions-cause-growth
    Abstract: We revisit the debate over whether political institutions cause economic growth, or whether, alternatively, growth and human capital accumulation lead to institutional development. We find that most indicators of institutional quality used to establish the proposition that institutions cause growth are constructed to be conceptually unsuitable for that purpose. We also find that some of the instrumental variable techniques used in the literature are flawed. Basic OLS results, as well as a variety of additional evidence, suggest that a) human capital is a more basic source of growth than are the institutions, b) poor countries get out of poverty through good policies, often pursued by dictators, and c) subsequently improve their political institutions.

The New Comparative Economics (2003), by Djankov, Glaeser, La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes & Shleifer,
    scholar.harvard.edu/shleifer/publications/new-comparative-economics
    Abstract: In recent years, the field of comparative economics refocused the comparison of capitalist economies. The theme of the new research is that institutions exert a profound influence on economic development. We argue that, to understand capitalist institutions, one needs to understand the basic tradeoff between the costs of disorder and those of dictatorship. We apply this logic to study the structure of efficient institutions, the consequences of colonial transplantation, and the politics of institutional choice.

The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might Be Right, by Paul Mahoney, Journal of Legal Studies (2001), papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=206809
Abstract: Recent finance scholarship finds that countries with legal systems based on the common law provide better investor protections and have more developed financial markets than civil law countries. These findings echo Hayek's claims of the superiority of English to French legal institutions. In this paper, I present evidence that common law countries experienced faster economic growth than civil law countries during the period 1960-1992. I suggest that the difference reflects the common law's greater orientation toward private economic activity and the civil law's greater orientation toward government intervention.

Two papers by British scholar Angus Maddison:
Brazilian Economic Performance Since 1500: A Comparative View (2000)
Brazilian Development Experience from 1500 to 1929

Entry for "Brazil" in 2013 Index of Economic Freedom,
www.heritage.org/index/country/brazil

Links for "Law and Justice in Latin America," lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/law/

Edgardo Buscaglia, Hoover Institution, Stanford University,
    www.hoover.org/bios/buscaglia.html (biography)
    works.bepress.com/edgardo_buscaglia/
    Judicial Reform in Latin America, www.hoover.org/publications/monographs/27172
    Law and Economics in Developing Countries,
    Judicial Corruption in Developing Countries: Its Causes and Economic
            Consequences, www.hoover.org/

Lee Alston, University of Colorado, Department of Economics, www.colorado.edu/ibs/EB/alston/
his papers online -- includes several on Brazil and Latin America
"Pork for Policy: Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil," Journal of Law, Economics & Organization (2005)

Hispanic American Center for Economic Research, www.hacer.org/

Atlas Foundation, atlasnetwork.org/

Brazilink, www.brazilink.org/
Welcome to Brazil, darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sergiok/brasil.html
Researching Brazil at Indiana University

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Americas Center,
www.frbatlanta.org/americascenter/

World Bank, "Topics in Development," click on "law and development,"
    www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/thematic.htm
    Click on "Topics" for "law and justice institutions"
    The Bank's Private Sector Development Blog

Economic Freedom Network, www.freetheworld.com/

University programs in Brazil studies --
    U. of Michigan Brazilian studies guide
    Brazilian Studies Association at U. of Illinois (good links page)
    Harvard U.
    Columbia U.
    U. of Texas, Austin
    Georgetown U.
    U. of Pittsburgh
    Brown U.
    Woodrow Wilson Center (Smithsonian Institution)
    U. of Oxford (UK)
Latin American Studies Association (and its Brazil section's blog)

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