Subnational judicial institutions in Mexico, 1917-2014/Instituciones judiciales subnacionales en México, 1917-2014/ Instituicoes judiciais subnacionais no Mexico, 1917-2014

• Published in: Colombia internacional 2017-07 (91), p.243
• Main Authors: Rios, Julio, Soto, Luis Fernando
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• ISSN: 0121-5612
• DOI: 10.7440/colombiaint91.2017.08

The purpose of this article is to describe almost one century of institutional track record of diverse aspects of the judicial power in the estates of Mexico. Starting with the original databases of the constitutions of the 31 Mexican estates and all their reforms since 1917 to 2014, we systematically describe aspects relevant to the higher courts, judicial councils and the constitutional courts of the estates, the judicial power budgeting and special jurisdictions. The most important finding is the interesting diversity of the judicial power's institutional architecture in the estates for almost one hundred years; these include authoritarian regime periods as well as a democratic regime at national level.