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William Suarez-Potts - The Making of Law. The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875-1931.  - 9780804775519 - V9780804775519
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The Making of Law. The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875-1931.

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Description for The Making of Law. The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875-1931. Hardback. This book is a history about the development of labor law in Mexico between 1875 and 1931. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804775519
SKU
V9780804775519
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About William Suarez-Potts
William J. Suarez-Potts is Associate Professor at Kenyon College. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and his A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews for The Making of Law. The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875-1931.
"The book challenges common perceptions of Mexican history and political economy . . . The narrative is chronological but the author skillfully situates key episodes and actors in the book's larger themes . . . [T]his book's overarching conclusions are important in at least two respects. First, Suarez-Potts renders unhistoric the popular practice of coding countries as civil or common ... Read more

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