Historia Crítica

Hist. Crit. | eISSN 1900-6152 | ISSN 0121-1617

Material Shortages, Respectability and Judicial Practices in Peru in the Early Republic

No. 49 (2013-01-01)
  • Pablo Whipple
https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit49.2013.04

Abstract

This paper studies the material shortages faced by the Peruvian judicial power in the early years of the Republic and seeks to understand how these deficiencies affected the administration of justice. We argue that the goal of the authorities to create an independent, professional, and nationwide judicial power immediately after independence was unattainable, directly affecting the reputation of judges and formalizing a series of irregular practices surrounding the courts. Said practices did not disappear as the country gained greater political and economic stability.

Keywords: Peru, State, administration of justice, legal profession, bureaucracy