Table of Contents

1: Legal history
2: Legal Education and the Legal Profession
3: Sources of Mexican Law
4: Federalism and Centralism
5: The Executive and Legislative Powers
6: The Judicial Power
7: Constitutional Rights
8: Judicial Procedures to Enforce the Constitution: Amparo, Controversias Constitucionales, and Acciones de Inconstitucionalidad
9: Administrative Law
10: Civil and Commercial Procedure
11: Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
12: Regulation of the Economy and Environmental Regulation
13: Labor Law, Agrarian Reform and the Welfare State
14: Civil and Commercial Codes
15: Law of Persons and Family
16: Law of Property and Succession
17: Law of Obligations
18: Commercial Law
19: Law of Business Organizations
20: Law of Financial Institutions
21: Intellectual Property Law
22: Conflicts of Law (Private International Law)

About the Author

Professor José Roldán Xopa Editor
Professor David Lopez Author; Professor Zamora's biography:
Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center, since 1978
Co-Director, International Law Institute, University of Houston
Dean, University of Houston Law Center (1995-2000)
Fulbright Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) (1982-83)
Visiting Research Fellow, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM (1982-83, 1991-92, 2001-03)
Visiting Professor, Yale Law School (1994)
Attorney, The World Bank (1976-1978)
Lecturer, Center for American and International Law, Dallas, Texas (1989-2002)