La justicia peronista: el caso de las cámaras de arrendamientos y aparcerías rurales (1948-1955)

Abstract

This paper analyzes land-tenancy laws and the regulation of rural property of the first two peronist governments, in particular the formation and performance of the “Cámaras paritarias de conciliación y arbitraje obligatorio” (Chambers of Mandatory Conciliation and Arbitration), created by the Law of Land Tenancy of 1948. It argues that those chambers were part of the judicial policies of the early peronism, with the main goal of taking away the jurisdiction of conflict resolution in rural realms from the Judiciary, and putting it in the hands of the National Executive Power. This had the advantage of erecting that power and the national presidency as the great providers and guarantors of the new social policies, as well as allowing them to control the implementation of the new legislation, avoiding at the same time the conservatism of the Judiciary.