Mexican Law ReviewPub Date : 2017-07-01DOI: 10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11381
Dawn Paley
{"title":"State Power and the Enforcement of Prohibition in Mexico","authors":"Dawn Paley","doi":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11381","DOIUrl":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11381","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article positions the prohibition of psychoactive substances as a material means of strengthening States and State power. We argue that the militarized enforcement of prohibition has known outcomes beyond the control of substances, including the creation of cash economies that, firstly, support the smooth flowing of modern global capitalism, and secondly, finance US allied (reactionary) armed groups internationally. Various national contexts are considered, with a special focus on how these trends are developing in the ongoing “war on drugs” in Mexico.</p></div><div><p>En este artículo se postula la prohibición de las sustancias psicoactivas como un medio material para fortalecer a los Estados y al poder estatal. Sugerimos entonces que la aplicación militarizada de la prohibición ha tenido resultados más allá del control de las sustancias, incluyendo la creación de economías en efectivo que, en primer lugar, apoyan la fluidez del capitalismo global moderno y, en segundo lugar, financian a los grupos armados aliados (reaccionarios) de los Estados Unidos a nivel internacional. Se consideran diversos contextos nacionales, con especial énfasis en cómo se desarrollan estas tendencias en la guerra contra el narcotráfico en curso en México.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":41684,"journal":{"name":"Mexican Law Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"Pages 3-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11381","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43443652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mexican Law ReviewPub Date : 2017-07-01DOI: 10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11384
Susana Dávalos
{"title":"Rejection of Executory Contracts: A Comparative Economic Analysis","authors":"Susana Dávalos","doi":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11384","DOIUrl":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11384","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article describes three models used around the world for the treatment of executory contracts in bankruptcy. An economic analysis is made of the ex post incentives of the bankruptcy trustee to reject the contract under each model, based on Jesse Fried's article Executory Contracts and Performance Decisions. This article states that the approach used by Spain is likely to create the most efficient ex post incentives. The contribution of this article is to further the discussion on the treatment of executory contracts in bankruptcy, as it continues to be one of the main day-to-day issues at bankruptcy courts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":41684,"journal":{"name":"Mexican Law Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"Pages 69-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11384","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48795753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mexican Law ReviewPub Date : 2017-07-01DOI: 10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11382
Raúl Iturralde González
{"title":"The Need to Remove the Civil Code from Mexican Commercial Laws: the Case of “Offers” and “Firm Promises”","authors":"Raúl Iturralde González","doi":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11382","DOIUrl":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11382","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In 1889, then Mexican President Porfirio Díaz enacted the Mexican Commercial Code that is still in force today. This code was inspired on the Napoleonic code of 1807. Unfortunately, the Mexican code eliminated the use of commercial customs and practices as an accepted method for breaching gaps in commercial law. Since then, Mexican commercial law has held the civil code as the basis for dealing with gaps and loopholes in the application of commercial law. This has prevented the further development of Mexican commercial law as it is forced to use institutions and doctrines that were not designed to deal with rapidly changing commercial issues. Mexican commercial law would benefit from the reincorporation of commercial customs and practices as a basis to fill in the gaps in the law.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":41684,"journal":{"name":"Mexican Law Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"Pages 21-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11382","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42481633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mexican Law ReviewPub Date : 2017-07-01DOI: 10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11383
Abraham Alejandro Servín Caamaño
{"title":"The Recognition of Foreign Law: Foreign Maritime Liens Under Mexican Law","authors":"Abraham Alejandro Servín Caamaño","doi":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11383","DOIUrl":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11383","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Maritime liens, without a doubt, are a unique and hugely important feature of maritime law. Broadly speaking, they represent a claim on or special right to a vessel. However, there is no uniformity when it comes to studying this unique feature. It is from the Anglo-Saxon jurisdictions that we get the majority of our information about its nature and associated problems. In this article, the law on maritime liens is examined through a comparative study of several Anglo-Saxon jurisdictions and Mexican law. Also under investigation are the problems that arise when a national court is faced with a maritime lien created under foreign law, and when that maritime lien differs from those liens established under the law that governs the domestic court.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":41684,"journal":{"name":"Mexican Law Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"Pages 45-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11383","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47880881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mexican Law ReviewPub Date : 2017-07-01DOI: 10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11385
Elisa Ortega Velázquez
{"title":"Minority Rights for Immigrants: From Multiculturalism to Civic Participation","authors":"Elisa Ortega Velázquez","doi":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11385","DOIUrl":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11385","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article asserts that according to international law, immigrants do have rights as a minority, and in abiding by their international obligations, States are obligated to implement policies that safeguard these rights and, in this way, facilitate the integration of immigrants into the host society. However, there are a number of elements that make the practical enforcement of these rights and the implementation of such policies rather complex. Thus, a series of international law provisions are first reviewed so as to be able to establish the foundations of our views. Secondly, we summarize and analyze the main trends of integration policies in three of the main Western immigration countries: Canada, the United States and the Netherlands, in order to broadly present the actions and results. Lastly, we conclude that immigrant integration projects fail to respect immigrants’ rights as a minority and that more effort should be made to comply with the international obligations States have assumed</p></div>","PeriodicalId":41684,"journal":{"name":"Mexican Law Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"Pages 103-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11385","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43941549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mexican Law ReviewPub Date : 2017-07-01DOI: 10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11386
Guillermo José Mañón Garibay
{"title":"The Consumption of Marijuana from A Legal and Philosophical Viewpoint","authors":"Guillermo José Mañón Garibay","doi":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11386","DOIUrl":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11386","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this note I argue that the decriminalization (or authorization) of marijuana use should be considered with an eye to the evil it avoids instead of to the good it seeks. The debate about the decriminalization/permission of the consumption of marijuana in Mexico is set within the context of the individual freedom and the damage to health produced by its consumption. Other related issues result from this approach, such as individual responsibility and the duty of the State to seek the social good. How can one justify the decriminalization of marijuana considering the duty of the state? How can the harmful craving for it be understood given the alleged natural inclination towards personal well-being (axiom of Western culture)? The response has to do with the exercise of power by the State, in the definition of what is healthy and harmful, normal and pathological, because the concepts “healthy” and “harmful” have ideological uses (in the sense of the 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon). Secondly, we cannot ignore the discomfort caused by social life, due to the demands on public duty at the expense of private interests. This results in a tension between the individual and society that is only mitigated by tolerance for drug abuse, alcohol or permission of “red zones,” because only in this way are social conflicts dissipated.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":41684,"journal":{"name":"Mexican Law Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"Pages 129-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.19.11386","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42174813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mexican Law ReviewPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10779
Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca
{"title":"Mexico: A Failed State or a Criminal State? The Nestora Salgado Case","authors":"Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca","doi":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10779","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>For decades, the people in the Mexican state of Guerrero have been immersed in poverty, insecurity, and militarization. Accordingly in 1995, almost a year after the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) uprising, a community police corporation was formed with members of indigenous communities, in order not only to protect the population against organized and regular crime but also to administer justice with the legal grounds provided by the International Labour Organization Convention 169. Since then, many members of the Guerrero community police have been incarcerated for political reasons. One of them is Nestora Salgado, who was illegally detained by the Mexican army and incarcerated in a high security prison in Nayarit for almost 20 months. In December 2015, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention deemed the detention of Nestora Salgado as illegal and arbitrary, and requested her immediate release.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":41684,"journal":{"name":"Mexican Law Review","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 141-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10779","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137415510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mexican Law ReviewPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10776
Ana María Zorrilla Noriega
{"title":"Mexican Structural Reforms and the United States Congress","authors":"Ana María Zorrilla Noriega","doi":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10776","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Diverse structural reforms were enacted in Mexico during 2013 and 2014. Since these reforms were made on the constitutional level, they must be translated into specific laws and regulations; and more importantly, they must be implemented in an efficient manner. As Mexico is experiencing this transformation, its relations with United States are also evolving. This transition will probably imply new challenges with regard to different aspects of the bilateral relationship. Considering that the U.S. Congress plays a significant role in shaping those relations, the purpose of this article is to analyze some significant issues that have received or are likely to receive special attention in the U.S. Congress. This article is divided into seven sections. The first one presents an analysis of the complexity of U.S.-Mexico relations. The second part includes an explanation regarding Mexican reforms of 2013 and 2014, as well as the resulted transition in the bilateral relationship. The next four sections address significant pillars of this relationship: security, economy, migration, and energy. Each of these parts comprises a general overview of the U.S.-Mexico relations in that specific matter; a description of the views of the Mexican government and reforms of its constitutional and legal framework; and an analysis of the most relevant legislative actions that have recently taken place or are likely to receive attention in the U.S. Congress. The seventh section addresses other relevant aspects that should be taken into account in the policyand law-making processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":41684,"journal":{"name":"Mexican Law Review","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 71-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10776","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72252875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mexican Law ReviewPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10774
Mauro Arturo Rivera León
{"title":"Understanding Constitutional Amendments in Mexico: Perpetuum mobile Constitution","authors":"Mauro Arturo Rivera León","doi":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10774","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In spite of being formally rigid, the Mexican Constitution is frequently amended. In this article, I analyze the constitutional amendment procedure in order to understand the causes, consequences and potential solutions of the accelerated rhythm of constitutional amendments in Mexico.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":41684,"journal":{"name":"Mexican Law Review","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 3-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10774","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72252877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mexican Law ReviewPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10775
Ricardo Heredia Salazar
{"title":"Apple Pay & Digital Wallets in Mexico and the United States: Illusion or Financial Revolution?","authors":"Ricardo Heredia Salazar","doi":"10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10775","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Apple Pay and digital wallets have gained popularity since the fall of 2014. Perceiving Apple Pay & digital wallets as a financial revolution at this moment might be a mistake. The following study shows that it is just the evolution of a payment system in Mexico and the United States of America, a system that opened the door to a possible future financial revolution. Current financial regulation in Mexico and the United States of America is not accurately applied; therefore, proper guidelines or amendments in financial regulations should be issued by financial authorities in order to mend the loopholes in the law.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":41684,"journal":{"name":"Mexican Law Review","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 29-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2017.18.10775","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72252874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}