Liberal Jurisprudence, Labor Tribunals, and Mexico's Supreme Court, 1917–1924
| Autor: | T. M. James |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| Zdroj: | Law and History Review. 27:87-112 |
| ISSN: | 1939-9022 0738-2480 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0738248000001668 |
| Popis: | Within the last decade there has been a resurgence of scholarly interest in Mexican legal topics that relate to the Porfirian (1876–1910) and Mexican Revolutionary (1910–1940) periods, an especially formative time in the history of modern Mexican law. As Peter Reich has recently written, the great merit of this new literature has been to treat the law in its “social context,” a commonplace of legal studies in the United States, but one not typical of traditional approaches to modern Mexican legal history, which have “focused narrowly on code or other legislative changes.” Unfortunately, these methodological gains of recent years have not yet been applied to the history of Mexico's Supreme Court or its system of judicial review. One of the barriers to renewed interest in this area as a legal-historical topic, no doubt, has been the characterization of supreme courts in Latin America in general, and Mexico in particular, as “dependent, weak, parochial, conservative and decisionally unimportant.” |
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