História das Américas

There is a latent ambiguity in the migratory and adventurous movements undertaken by Europeans in the first three centuries beginning with the Conquest and the "discovery" of the New World. While this continent was imagined as an earthly paradise - with paradisiacal landscapes, fabulous men and fantastic animals - it would soon be confronted with an image of the hell, that of anthropophagic savages, the unbearable weather, and so on. Christopher Columbus's logbooks are a clear example of this dilemma. If at first those scenery aroused his enthusiasm and were in line with his religious outlook, in a second moment, with his dead men, his military forts destroyed and the absence of the gold that was so expected, they began to reveal a real horror to him.

A Revista del Colegio de Abogados de Buenos Aires foi lançada em novembro de 1921 como publicação oficial do órgão representativo da advocacia na capital argentina. Seu conteúdo jamais se limitou, porém, a aspectos institucionais. Tal periódico se tornou portador de certo projeto intelectual, que constitui o objeto central de análise deste artigo. Procurando elucidar tal projeto, detemo-nos, em primeiro lugar, sobre a forma como se expressou, nas páginas da revista, uma busca pelo protagonismo dos juristas na cena pública. Em seguida, voltamo-nos para o engajamento da publicação em favor do pan-americanismo. Tomamos como marcos temporais os fascículos editados entre novembro de 1928 e dezembro de 1941. Trata-se do período em que a revista foi dirigida por Enrique Gil, jurista consideravelmente comprometido com o pan-americanismo, e também do momento de sua trajetória em que a preocupação com os demais países das Américas foi mais explícita.
Palavras-chave: revistas jurídicas; pan-americanismo; direito.


Abstract:
The Revista del Colegio de Abogados de Buenos Aires was first published in 1921 as the official organ of the argentine capital’s bar association. However, its contents were never limited to institutional matters. The periodical became the bearer of a certain intellectual project, which constitutes this article’s central object of analysis. Seeking to elucidate such project, the initial focus is set upon how attempts to ensure a prominent place for jurists in the public scene were expressed in the pages of the journal. Attention is then directed towards the publication’s engagement in favor of Pan-Americanism. The time frame adopted comprises fascicules published between November 1928 and December 1941. That is the period in which the journal was directed by Enrique Gil, as well as the moment in its trajectory when concerns with other countries of the Americas were most explicit.
Keywords: legal journals; Pan-Americanism; law.