Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
has published a new book on Spanish legal journals of the 19th-20th
centuries, and on issues of legal relevance addressed by the Spanish daily
press.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Studies on Spanish legal journals
of the 19th and 20th centuries (La Escuela del Derecho, Revista de los Tribunales,
Revista General de Legislación y Jurisprudencia, Revista de Ciencias Jurídicas
y Sociales) and on issues of legal relevance addressed by the daily press (the
crime in Calle de Fuencarral, the celebrity of Cesare Lombroso). There are two
theses - one, in fact - that run through the works. The first deals with the
dominant model of the lawyer in liberal Spain. The old Ciceronian lawyer was
replaced in the 1880s by a 'scientific' jurist; an extraordinary example was
Rafael de Ureña and the law review that he created at the University of Madrid.
Secondly, it is maintained that before those years and even after, there were
no great differences between the so-called "legal reviews" and the
"political journals", due to the invasive projection of the same
public discourse. The Sevillian lawyer and politician Joaquín Francisco
Pacheco, founder of professional magazines but also of newspapers, can embody
like no other the archetype of the jurist-public man who, like Cicero, acted in
defence of his sponsored but also in favour of the collective cause.
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