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A
TREATISE FOR LEGAL PRACTITIONERS
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INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS |
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BOOK
REVIEWS |
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Since
its publication in 1998, Volumes 1 and 2 of the MEXICAN LAW TREATISE
have been favorably reviewed by leading Mexican law specialists from
the United States and Mexico. Brief excerpts from some of these reviews
follow: |
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James
R. Jones, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico wrote: |
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Mexican
Law for Legal Practitioners and International Investors is a timely,
much needed resource that will be a welcome addition to the library
of any investor, business person or lawyer interested in doing business
in Mexico. |
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The
first part of the book provides important Mexican perspectives on
Mexican law. I can think of no better person than Secretary Herminio
Blanco to describe, from a Mexican perspective, the natural commercial
ties that exist between Mexico and the United States. ...The third
part is, in many respects, the heart and soul of the book. In this
section, major areas of Mexican law are thoroughly and cogently discussed.
The issues covered are not only in the general areas one would expect
in a practitioners guide to doing business in Mexico, such as foreign
investment, corporations, contracts, labor law, etc. Other areas unique
to Mexican law, such as maquiladoras, fideicomisos, Mexican immigration
laws, gas regulations and government procurement rules and procedures
are also discussed. |
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This ambitious book will provide in one place nearly all the information
that a legal practitioner or international investor will need to prepare
and conduct business in Mexico. The inclusion of important legal documents
and numerous references to additional resources make it an indispensable
resource for anyone interested in doing business in Mexico. |
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Stephen
T. Zamora, Dean and Professor of Law of the University of Houston
Law Center, wrote: |
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...Mexican
Law represents a breakthrough, a highly useful introduction to the
legal system that has been largely ignored by lawyers in the United
States as well as many other countries. Unlike most books published
on Mexican law, either in Spanish or English, Mexican Law includes
some important aids for the lawyer/researcher -model legal forms,
bibliographies, glossaries and useful appendices (synopses of Mexican
laws, directories, tables of Mexican treaties, and tables of statutes
and regulations cited in the text). For this reason, Mexican Law will
be useful for academics as well as practitioners as a starting point
for an understanding or examination of particular aspects of Mexican
law. |
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Prof. Michael W. Gordon, Professor
of Law
at the University of Florida at Gainsville
School of Law, wrote: |
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How
long we have waited for this treatise! No one has before completed
such a challenging, and needed, task. Prof. Vargas, a prolific writer
who in the past decade has recently written extensively on the Mexican
legal system, as well as adding... has drawn together a distinguished
group of authors for
this two-volume treatise. Professor Vargas edited the treatise, and
authored eight of the twenty-eight chapters... Professor Vargas clearly
indicates tort law is not well developed in Mexico..It represents
an excellent outline of Mexican tort law and reference to the sparse
bibliography in English describing Mexican tort Law...Prof. Vargas
uses three hypotheticals involving American visitors in Mexico to
illustrate the nature of Mexican tort law. One is a tourist whose
margarita consumption contributed to a fall in a hotel stairwell,
another had a few beers and dove into a nearly empty hotel swimming
pool, and the last a tourist who was not the victim but the cause
of an injury when her car killed on teen and sent another to life
in a wheelchair. They are grim but very typical tales which the author
deftly uses to raise several very real, contemporary issues which
will occur repeatedly in the years to come..............Having presented
the theory of the law, Professor Vargas next returns to the three
hypothetical cases to discuss the application of Mexican law to these
quite common occurrences. Each of the cases may be cut short because
of contributory negligence, which in Mexican law in most states absolutely
absolves the defendant from liability. If this assumes some ease at
applying Mexican standards of negligence, Professor Vargas quickly
discounts such ease with his discussion of the absence of any standard
of negligence or fault in Mexican Law. ..............Prof. Vargas
suggests that in the three cases, assuming the defendants are found
liable, damages would accrue to the woman who fell after her bout
with the margaritas to be about $60,000, to the "dry" pool
driver about $650,000, and to the tourist causing death and injury
to others by her auto about $41,000. Moral damages might be available,
but Professor Vargas does not speculate on what they might be, noting
correctly that there have been few instances of their application.............This
tort chapter provides a valuable service beyond the discussion of
Mexican tort law. It discloses the undeveloped state of that law and
the dilemma in dealing with a foreign legal system, which, at least
in contrast to that in the U.S., seems to answer very few of those
questions about extra contractual liability which are increasingly
being asked in United States courts............I have a set of Prof.
Vargas's books both in my law school office and my home library. I
know that both sets in the years to come will gain that appearance
that only considerable use lends a volume, a soft tarnish to the binding
gained from affection for and frequent attention to its content. |
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Claudio
Grossman, Dean and Professor of Law
of American University School of Law wrote: |
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Author
& General Coordinator:
JORGE A. VARGAS
Professor of Law,
University of San Diego School of Law
Published by ©West
Group (1998)
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