Author: Andrea Castagnola
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315520605
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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After more than seventy years of uninterrupted authoritarian government headed by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Mexico formally began the transition to democracy in 2000. Unlike most other new democracies in Latin America, no special Constitutional Court was set up, nor was there any designated bench of the Supreme Court for constitutional adjudication. Instead, the judiciary saw its powers expand incrementally. Under this new context inevitable questions emerged: How have the justices interpreted the constitution? What is the relation of the court with the other political institutions? How much autonomy do justices display in their decisions? Has the court considered the necessary adjustments to face the challenges of democracy? It has become essential in studying the new role of the Supreme Court to obtain a more accurate and detailed diagnosis of the performances of its justices in this new political environment. Through critical review of relevant debates and using original data sets to empirically analyze the way justices voted on the three main means of constitutional control from 2000 through 2011, leading legal scholars provide a thoughtful and much needed new interpretation of the role the judiciary plays in a country’s transition to democracy This book is designed for graduate courses in law and courts, judicial politics, comparative judicial politics, Latin American institutions, and transitions to democracy. This book will equip scholars and students with the knowledge required to understand the importance of the independence of the judiciary in the transition to democracy.
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ISBN: 9789686145229
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Author: Jeffrey K. Staton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521195217
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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Although they are not directly accountable to voters, constitutional court judges communicate with the general public through the media. In Judicial Power and Strategic Communication in Mexico, Jeffrey K. Staton argues that constitutional courts develop public relations strategies in order to increase the transparency of judicial behavior and promote judicial legitimacy. Yet, in some political contexts there can be a tension between transparency and legitimacy, and for this reason, courts cannot necessarily advance both conditions simultaneously. The argument is tested via an analysis of the Mexican Supreme Court during Mexico's recent transition to democracy, and also through a cross-national analysis of public perceptions of judicial legitimacy. The results demonstrate that judges can be active participants in the construction of their own power. More broadly, the study develops a positive political theory of institutions, which highlights the connections between democratization and the rule of law.
Author: Mexico. Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación
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Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Resumen breve de la historia de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, Máximo Tribunal creado por la Constitución federal de 1824, las reformas por las que atravesó, algunos personajes de trascendencia, figuras del amparo, etc. La obra ilustra la arquitectura del edificio que alberga actualmente a la Suprema Corte, desde 1941. La puerta de bronce de tres y media toneladas es de gran valor artístico y plasma 4 momentos trascendentales de la historia de México: la evangelización, la República Federalista, la Reforma y el México moderno e institucional. Tres esculturas se encuentran en el vestíbulo del edificio: Mariano Otero, Manuel Crescencio Rejón e Ignacio L. Vallarta. Asimismo cuenta con numerosos murales, cuatro de ellos pintados por José Clemente Orozco, todos con gran contenido social.
Author: Timothy M. James
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826353797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Although Mexico’s Constitution of 1917 mandated the division of large landholdings, provided land for the landless, and guaranteed workers the rights to organize, strike, and bargain collectively, it also guaranteed fundamental liberal rights to property and due process that enabled property owners and employers to resist the implementation of the new social rights by filing suit in federal court. Taking as its main focus the way new and old rights were adjudicated before the Supreme Court, this book is the first to examine the subject through the lens of court documents and the writings and commentaries of jurists and other legal professionals. The author asks and answers the question, how did the judicial interpretation of the Constitution of 1917 become a barrier to implementing agrarian land rights and labor legislation in the years immediately following Mexico’s social revolution of 1910?
Author: William Suarez-Potts
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804783489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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Despite Porfirio Díaz's authoritarian rule (1877-1911) and the fifteen years of violent conflict typifying much of Mexican politics after 1917, law and judicial decision-making were important for the country's political and economic organization. Influenced by French theories of jurisprudence in addition to domestic events, progressive Mexican legal thinkers concluded that the liberal view of law—as existing primarily to guarantee the rights of individuals and of private property—was inadequate for solving the "social question"; the aim of the legal regime should instead be one of harmoniously regulating relations between interdependent groups of social actors. This book argues that the federal judiciary's adjudication of labor disputes and its elaboration of new legal principles played a significant part in the evolution of Mexican labor law and the nation's political and social compact. Indeed, this conclusion might seem paradoxical in a country with a civil law tradition, weak judiciary, authoritarian government, and endemic corruption. Suarez-Potts shows how and why judge-made law mattered, and why contemporaries paid close attention to the rulings of Supreme Court justices in labor cases as the nation's system of industrial relations was established.
Author: New Mexico. Supreme Court
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Author: New Mexico. Supreme Court
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Category : Court rules
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: New Mexico. Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Author: Stephen P. Halbrook
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826352995
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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That Every Man Be Armed, the first scholarly book on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, has played a significant role in constitutional debate and litigation since it was first published in 1984. Halbrook traces the right to bear arms from ancient Greece and Rome to the English republicans, then to the American Revolution and Constitution, through the Reconstruction period extending the right to African Americans, and onward to today’s controversies. With reviews of recent literature and court decisions, this new edition ensures that Halbrook’s study remains the most comprehensive general work on the right to keep and bear arms.
