Eduardo Juan Couture

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eduardo Juan Couture (1904–1956) was an Uruguayan jurist whose works are fundamental to the teaching of procedural law in Latin America.

Couture taught civil procedure at the University of Montevideo from 1931 on. He found America-wide recognition as the redactor of the journal Revista de Derecho, Jurisprudencia y Administración, and as the author of the textbooks Fundamentos de Derecho Procesal Civil (1942) and Estudios de Derecho Civil (1948–50). Couture's approach to legal procedure was founded on the constitutional rights of individuals. It was also informed by a systematic comparison of Latin American codes of procedure.

[edit] References

  • Paul, Wolf (2001). "Couture, Eduardo J.", in Michael Stolleis (ed.): Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, 2nd edition (in German), München: Beck, 147. ISBN 3406 45957 9. 


Flag of Uruguay  This Uruguayan biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.


 This biographical article relating to law is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Languages