Abstract
This article focuses on describing and reflecting, from a historical and ethnographic approach, the work carried out by the Latin American Forum of Anthropology of Law (FLAD); therefore, it does not claim to be a synthesis of the field of Legal Anthropology or Law in Latin America. The purpose is to recover the memory and objectives of its two precursors, as an academic-scientific forum through which it is possible to locate and link groups, laboratories and research centers, as well as researchers and students whose work is focused on the anthropological reflection of Law based on the ethnography of legal institutions and state bureaucracies; its multiple manifestations and tensions, in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.
Keywords:
Anthropology of Law; Legal Anthropology; Ethnography of state bureaucracies; Latin America; Legal systems