Abstract
Law schools in South America are much more activist than the law schools in this country. Their political and social importance is far greater, and they want no part of the post-graduate isolation that our law schools enjoy.
Bolivia is often regarded as the quintessential Latin American republic. This is certainly true with regard to the universities. Bolivia's universities suffer in extreme form from nearly all of the problems typical of Latin American higher education. An understanding of Bolivia's law schools, then, can be generalized to some extent to other countries.
The bulk of Bolivia's four million people live on the treeless plateau between the two ranges of the Andes. This is the Altiplano, averaging more than 12,000 feet above sea level Yet the vast Amazon basin jungle to the east comprises over two-thirds of the country's land area. Sixty to seventy percent of the Bolivian population are illiterate Indian peasants, living off their flocks of sheep and llamas and their hard-won harvests of potatoes.
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9 Ariz. L. Rev. 413 (Spring 1968)
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