Revolutionary Constituencies and the Revision of International Law in Latin America: The Mexican Revolution, the Constitution of 1917 and the Rise of a Latin American Legal Critique of US Armed and Unilateral Interventions

JUAN PABLO SCARFI

Melbourne

Conferencia; Conference: 1917: Revolution, Intervention and International Law(s); 2017

University of Melbourne, Law School

The impact of the transformations introduced by Mexican Revolution and the new Constitution of 1917 in the fields of international law and diplomacy in Mexico and across the Americas, particularly their implications for continental and regional debates over armed and unilateral interventions (& asylum), have been overlooked by scholarship on international law and Mexican Revolution. This paper examines the redefinition of Mexican and Latin American conceptions of the international legal order and the germination of new international legal doctrines about interventions and US unilateralism in the face of US armed intervention in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1914.