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The Civil Procedure Law, which entered into force in January 2001, was amended nine times in 2015. In some cases, the amendments completed the modernisation process of the Civil Procedure Law that started with its enactment. This is the case of the Law on Voluntary Jurisdiction and the Law on International Legal Cooperation. In other cases, the amendments were due to the pressing need to modernise technical methods and involved introducing the new electronic auction system and the general use of telematics means for court communications and to file procedural documents. Some of the amendments were carried out to improve the functioning of the courts and tribunals: the reform of the Judiciary Law and its impact on civil procedure, or its own procedures, which, by way of example, can be highlighted by the introduction of the written response in the oral proceedings or the possibility of lodging an appeal for a court to reverse its rulings on evidence. This paper aims to provide a general analysis of all the amendments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the research was to better understand practices of government forces in the context of Mexico's "war on drugs" between 2006 and 2011. To do so, we analyzed the "Confrontations" data base published by cide's Drug Policy Program. The paper offers a descriptive analysis of the statistics contained in that data base and identifies two main tendencies in the behavior of authorities during "Confrontations" in which they engaged with opposing civilian forces: increasing improvisation and a more intense use of lethal force. The two phenomena result from the scarcity of investigation leading up to a confrontation and the lack of legal support in the activities carried out by authorities during the so-called "joint operatives" during the Calderón administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A year after the First World Humanitarian Summit (Istanbul, May 23rd- 24th 2016), this paper seeks to contribute to the analysis of some of the main challenges facing the international humanitarian system, which has over the last decades suffered from a double process of problematisation and politicisation. To do this, a critical dialogue is established between social constructivism, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, feminism and the anthropology of aid, which, among other post-positivist schools, have emphasised the need to place the controversies related to "identity politics" within humanitarianism at the centre of international political debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On 5 October 2015, Law 41/2015 amending the Criminal Procedure for the acceleration of criminal justice and the strengthening of procedural safeguards was passed. Among other measures, Law 41/2015 introduces maximum time limits for the investigation stage of criminal proceedings. This paper sets out an initial approach to the way these time limits are expected to apply in practice and assesses their impact on the way criminal proceedings are conducted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes migration from Mexico to the United States over the past decades and seeks to explain why it began to fall starting in 2008. After providing some background on the historical trends of labor migration to the United States, the article focuses on the place of Mexicans and other Latin Americans in the United States labor market as the context that frames Mexican migration. This work then analyzes the impact of the 2008-2009 recession on Latin American laborers, especially Mexicans, and how migration flows from Mexico have evolved in recent years. The conclusion derived from the analysis of the data and trends observed is that the decline in Mexican migration starting in 2008 can primarily be explained by the behavior of labor demand in the United States, largely determined by the recession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]