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Professor M.C. Mirow has just published Latin American Constitutions: The Constitution of Cádiz and its Legacy in Spanish America (Cambridge University Press, 2015). The work provides a comprehensive historical study of constitutionalism in Latin America from the independence period to the present, focusing on the Constitution of Cádiz, a foundational document in Latin American constitutionalism.  The book explores the region’s attempts to create effective constitutional texts and regimes in light of an established practice of linking constitutions to political goals and places important constitutional thinkers and regional constitutions, such as the Mexican Constitution of 1917, into their legal and historical context.

“I am so pleased to see this book published.  It took much longer than I had planned and is, in many ways, a companion to the study of Latin American private law I wrote several years ago,” said Mirow referring to his earlier work, Latin American Law: A History of Private Law and Institutions in Spanish America (University of Texas Press, paperback 2009).

The new book is available directly from the press here or through Amazon here.

Mirow is a founding faculty member of FIU Law and a member of the Florida bar.