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Marbury In Mexico: Judicial Review’S Precocious Southern Migration, M C. Mirow

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In attempting to construct United States-style judicial review for the Mexican Supreme Court in the 1880s, Ignacio Vallarta, president of the court, read Marbury in a way that preceded this use of the case in the United States. Using this surprising fact as a central example, this article makes several important contributions to the field of comparative constitutional law. The work demonstrates that through constitutional migration, novel readings of constitutional sources can arise in foreign fora. In an era when the United States Supreme Court may be accused of parochialism in its constitutional analysis, the article addresses the current controversy …

Código Civil De Méjico, Distrito Federal (Mexico), Baja California (Mexico), Puebla (Mexico), Mexico

Civil Codes (1800-1923)

Código civil del Distrito de México, Territorio de la Baja California, y de Puebla.

Biblioteca de la Revista de los Tribunales. Legislación Extranjera. Colección de Códigos Civiles Americanos y Europeos; Tomo Primero.