Eduardo Juan Couture (1904–1956) was an Uruguayan jurist whose works are fundamental to the teaching of procedural law in Latin America. Couture taught at the University of the Republic, Uruguay from 1931 on. His main area of interest was civil procedure. He found America-wide recognition as the editor 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).