Circulación de ideas jurídicas y génesis del derecho social en Chile (1890-1914): Anton Menger (Austria, 1841-1906), Adolfo Posada (España, 1860-1944) y Valentín Letelier (Chile, 1852-1919)

• Published in: Revista de estudios histórico-jurídicos 2022 (44), p.433-463
• Main Author: Reyes, Roberto Cerón
• Format: Article
• Language: eng ; spa
• Subjects: LAW
• ISSN: 0716-5455
• DOI: 10.4067/S0716-54552022000100433

ABSTRACT The article examines the transfer of social and legal ideas between Europe and Hispanic America, through the figure of three important jurists in their respective countries: the Austrian Anton Menger (1841-1906), the Spanish Adolfo Posada (1860-1944) and the Chilean Valentín Letelier (1852-1919), within the framework of the genesis of social law in Chile (1890-1914) and as part of a process of global scope called "socialization of the law and sociologization of legal thought", which began in the last decades of the 19th century. To understand this circulation, a silhouette of these three jurists is offered, especially their legal thinking, in order to establish their differences and, above all, their connections. [...]the main legal ideas that flow from the Mengerian text, Civil Law and the Poor, are analyzed, which is necessary to internalize both in the dissemination of this work at the hands of Posada and Letelier and in the relationships, based on the aforementioned text and other antecedents, among these three jurists. Sin embargo, fue en el segundo plano donde la obra de Menger alcanzó máxima notoriedad, pues aquí elaboró un discurso -el socialismo jurídico- que buscaba reformar -y no destruir- el derecho entonces vigente, mediante una normativa que reconociera los intereses de las clases desposeídas o proletarias14.