William Suarez-Potts states that The Making of Law “is a history of the development of labor law in Mexico from 1875 to 1931” (p. 1). In truth, however, the volume stays closer to its title, which highlights the relationship between the Supreme Court and labor legislation in Mexico. Legal realism, the position that the law is what judges and judicial authorities do rather than the written text, was developed to understand US common law, and Suarez-Potts argues that it is the best stance to take in order to understand law in Mexico. To do this, Suarez-Potts focuses most of his analysis on the published legal opinions in Mexico’s Semanario Judicial de la Federación, Supreme Court case records, various secondary sources, and the published proceedings of the meetings that gave rise to Article 123 in 1917 and the 1931 federal labor code. The analysis is qualitative, as according to Suarez-Potts...
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