The teaching of constitutional law from the local in Mexico

Abstract

The teaching of constitutional law in Mexico, has been historically limited to the systematic study of the regulations included in the Political Constitution of the Mexican United States of February 5, 1917. The theory, doctrine, and bibliography prevailing, has had as its purpose legitimize the revolutionary principles of that, until the construction of the standard conceptual founding as positive constitutional jurisprudence. In the same sense, the curricula of universities in the training of jurists by applying the method of legal positivism, has led in consequence a teaching "closed", "'s calls" and focusing exclusively on federal spectrum. The reform of June 10, 2011, has helped to meet a legal reality, social and educational environment of the national and the international in the understanding of the federal standard and with this move to the construction of a dogmatic Local Constitutional, where the paradigm of the constitutional law is the exception, that is to say, the study and teaching of constitutional law from the local phenomenon, based on three considerations: a constitutional interpretation based on values, the definition of the powers of the Superior Courts of Justice as local constitutional judges and finally the definition of a legislation in the field of Constitutional Justice Local, forming as a result, a theoretical model own constitutional.