Name: The Making of Law: The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875-1931
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Author: William Suarez-Potts
ISBN: 9780804775519

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The Making of Law: The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875-1931

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Physical Book

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Author

William Suarez-Potts

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

360

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0804775516

ISBN13

9780804775519

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Synopsis "The Making of Law: The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875-1931 "

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.

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