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Legal Methodologies For Maximizing Freedom Of Scientific Research, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.

Princípios-Tópicos De Hermenêutica Constitucional, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Houve tempo em que a Constituição servia para poisar ou charuto ou tirar um argumento político, como ironicamente afirmaria o grande escritor oitocentista Eça de Queiroz. Hoje a Constituição é a norma das normas. Daí há consequências hermenêuticas. Ao contrário das teorias que importam interpretação tradicional e, por vezes, em grande medida ultrapassada, para o Direito Constitucional, a tendência actual é a inversa: dada a supremacia da Constituição, deve ser a metodologia constitucional a exportar hermenêutica para o todo do Direito. Para isso, começamos neste artigo com grandes princípios de hermenêutica intra-constitucional. Depois se passará à exportação.

Los Efectos De La Revocabilidad Del Negocio Jurídico Testamentario En El Sistema Jurídico Peruano, Renzo E. Saavedra Velazco

Renzo E. Saavedra Velazco

En el presente artículo se aborda explicitamente el debate en torno a los efectos de la revocabilidad del negocio jurídico testamentario. A partir de ello, así como de la estructura de la revocación y del testamento, se hace patente el carácter sui generis del negocio de última voluntad.

Bioethics And Law In The United States: A Legal Process Perspective, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.

Los Negocios Jurídicos Mortis Causa En El Sistema Jurídico Peruano: Los Contratos Mortis Causa Y Los Pactos Sucesorios, Renzo E. Saavedra Velazco

Renzo E. Saavedra Velazco

En el presente artículo se plantean las diferencias entre los mecanismos contractuales cuyos efectos se encuentran vínculados al evento muerte de un invididuo. Con ello se intenta evidenciar, por un lado, que no todo contrato mortis causa es un pacto sucesorio y, por otro lado, que algunos de ellos se erigen como alternativas al testamento. Todo ello importará una reconfiguración de ciertas categorías negociales consideradas institucionales.

Common Law Vs. Civil Law: La Competencia Entre Ordenamientos Jurídicos, Leysser L. Leon

Leysser L. León

La importación de modelos jurídicos estadounidenses al ordenamiento peruano, afín por tradición a la familia del derecho civil, se viene consolidando, indolentemente y casi siempre de la mano con la dependencia económica, no sólo en particulares áreas del derecho (civil, comercial, bursátil, minero, ambiental, etc.), sino en la propia enseñanza universitaria y, no menos mecánicamente, en los proyectos de códigos de ética profesional para abogados. Urge, más que nunca, una comparación jurídica crítica que subraye y prevenga de los riesgos de la globalización del derecho para los países subdesarrollados.

La Cesión De Derechos En El Código Civil Peruano, Edward Ivan Cueva

Edward Ivan Cueva

La Cesión de Derechos en el Código Civil Peruano

Reforming Federal Personal Injury Litigation By Incorporation Of The Procedural Innovations Of Scotland And Ireland: An Analysis And Proposal, Daniel H. Erskine

Daniel H. Erskine

Federal procedure has embraced the referral of civil cases outside the court system to alternative dispute resolution. This article argues that by utilizing courts to settle cases through civil procedure, courts realize their central role in ensuring the quality of settlements produced through the judicial administration of justice. The purpose of this article is to provide litigants an optional procedure to expeditiously resolve federal personal injury cases. The system proposed in this article incorporates Scottish and Irish civil procedural reforms into a coherent method for judicial officers to declare the settlement value of a personal injury action without referring the …

Obtaining The Skills Required For Performing Tax Process Outsourcing, William Byrnes

William H. Byrnes

No abstract provided.

Domestic Regulatory Autonomy Under The Tbt Agreement: From Non-Discrimination To Harmonization, Michael Ming Du

Michael Ming Du

Compared with other World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreements, the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreement has received relatively little scholarly attention. This paper will illustrate that the TBT agreement has already exhibited potential to penetrate inappropriately into the domestic regulatory order and threaten domestic regulatory autonomy in unexpected ways, even if many important provisions are still to be elucidated in follow-up dispute settlement practice. This unwarranted intrusion into domestic regulatory autonomy is largely due to the reluctance of WTO panels and the AB to explore the telos of the TBT Agreement. Under the TBT Agreement, not only the conflict between …

¡30,000 Dólares Por Daños Morales En Un Divorcio! De Cómo El "Daño Al Proyecto De Vida" Continúa Inflando Peligrosamente Los Resarcimientos, Leysser L. Leon

Leysser L. León

De un tiempo a esta parte, los tribunales civiles de Lima vienen concediendo resarcimientos a ciegas, sobre la base del artículo 345-A del Código Civil peruano, en el cual se obliga al magistrado, a "velar por la estabilidad del cónyuge perjudicado" en los casos de separación de hecho, ya señalando una "indemnización", ya ordenando la "adjudicación preferente de bienes de la sociedad conyugal".

En este comentario de jurisprudencia se explica por qué es equivocado asociar la "indemnización" referida en dicha norma con la responsabilidad civil, y se brindan elementos para su correcto enfoque como importante manifestación de la solidaridad familiar.

Algunos Apuntes En Torno A La Prescripción Extintiva Y La Caducidad, Edward Ivan Cueva

Edward Ivan Cueva

No abstract provided.

بدايــة النهايــة: أثــر ظهــور مجالـس تسويــة المنازعــات على اضمحـلال الـدور شبـه التحكيمـي للمهنـدس الاستشـاري فـي عقـد الفيديـك لمقـاولات أعمـال الهندسـة المدنيـة - دراسة في آليات المنازعات العقدية وفقا ً لتعديلات الإصدار الأخير من عقد الفيديك, Mashael Alhajeri

Mashael Alhajeri

Beginning of the End: Introduction of Dispute Adjudication Boards (DABs) and the Demise of Engineer’s Quasi-Arbitral Role under the FIDIC Form of Contract: A Study in Contractual Dispute Mechanisms according to the Amendments Introduced by FIDIC’s Latest Edition

Alhajeri, Mashael A.

This research paper presents a detailed insight into the Dispute Adjudication Boards system as method of resolving contractual disputes in civil engineering contracts, introduced by the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC), through the amendments made to the latest edition of its model contract.

The paper argues that the immediate effect of adopting this system is the restriction of …

The U.S.-Ec Dispute Over Customs Matters: Trade Facilitation, Customs Unions, And The Meaning Of Wto Obligations, Daniel H. Erskine

Daniel H. Erskine

The article addresses a current WTO dispute between the United States and the European Communities on selected customs matters. The article discusses the necessity for a uniform WTO agreement on trade facilitation, as well as analyzes the apparent inconsistency between the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Article X’s mandate for WTO Members to uniformly, impartially, and reasonably administer municipal customs laws and Article XXIV’s allowance of individual members of a customs union to substantially apply common commercial regulations and laws in relation to non-members of the customs union. The article concludes that an agreement between WTO Members on …

Globalization In Comparative Perspective: A New Approach To Comparative Law And Legal Thought, Tamara Lothian, Katharina Pistor

Tamara Lothian

No abstract provided.

Email Service On Foreign Defendants: Time For An International Approach?, Anna Conley, David Stewart

Anna Conley

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Law Analysis Of U.S. Judicial Assistance, Anna Conley

Anna Conley

No abstract provided.

اصول اروپايي حقوق قراردادها و فرايند يكسان سازي حقوقي در اروپا, Jan M. Smits

Jan M Smits

This article offers an overview of the process of harmonisation of private law in the European Union. It was translated into Dari Persian by Amin Armans.

Efigie De Luigi Corsaro, Leysser L. Leon

Leysser L. León

Ha fallecido en Perugia, a los 72 años, el Prof. Luigi Corsaro (1940-2012), que auspició y dirigió mis investigaciones jurídicas e interdisciplinarias por seis años (2000-2005). En el 2007, a pedido de una revista dirigida y editada por varios de mis alumnos más destacados, escribí estas páginas evocativas de sus enseñanzas y de su papel en mi formación académica. Las vuelvo a publicar, por este medio, confiando en que pueda difundirse entre el mayor público posible (especialmente entre los jóvenes estudiantes) la imagen de un jurista, de un Maestro cuyas lecciones universitarias y de vida me acompañarán por siempre.

La Buena Fe En La Negociación De Los Contratos: Apuntes Comparatísticos Sobre El Artículo 1362 Del Código Civil Peruano Y Su Presunto Papel Como Fundamento De La Responsabilidad Precontractual (2004), Leysser L. Leon

Leysser L. León

En este artículo, se efectúa un análisis histórico y comparativo de la responsabilidad civil por daños ocasionados durante los tratos previos al contrato.

A propósito, se demuestra, con los mismos instrumentos metodológicos, por qué las cláusulas normativas generales (Generalklauseln) son inapropiadas en ordenamientos jurídicos como el peruano, y por qué son aplicables a esta hipótesis de ilícito civil las reglas de la responsabilidad aquiliana o extracontractual (artículo 1969º del Código Civil peruano).

Orient Express Law, Mauro Bussani

Mauro Bussani

For comparativists, the ‘Europeanization’ of tort law raises a plethora of questions with no clear right or wrong answer. Is European tort law going to be molded by a common law and civil law convergence? Is there an Americanization of European tort law going on? Should comparative law be forward-looking and trying to build European tort law on new bricks, or should it be backward looking, struggling to find evidence of a common past to be restored? While it is beyond the scope of the contribution to offer a definite answer to all these questions, the paper aims to clarify …

European Tort Law – A Way Forward, Mauro Bussani

Mauro Bussani

In the last years, there have been growing efforts of building a common European tort law. Leaving aside any positive or negative bias vis-à-vis the reasons underpinning these efforts, the paper aims to highlights the overall implications of reframing this field of law, implications that are often forgotten, or undernoted in the debate about the harmonization of European laws of tort. In particular, the paper points out the problems that any integrative enterprise focusing on this field may face, and sketches the possible outcomes that such enterprises are likely to produce in both the short and the long run.

Le Garanzie Reali Al Servizio Dello Stato, Mauro Bussani

Mauro Bussani

In the last decades, many Western countries have undergone economy-wide reforms generally aimed to reduce the role of the State in the economy, by limiting public ownership of land and infrastructures. Privatization programs concerning States’ immovables have taken many forms, and have often been coupled with the alleged benefits of the securitization of immovable property-related assets. In many cases, however, these programs have been carried out with no or little awareness of the variety of instruments that the law of security rights makes available to the privatizing State. The comparative survey conducted in this paper provides an overview of the …

Las Diversidades Y El Derecho, Mauro Bussani

Mauro Bussani

The paper tackles some of the most crucial issues concerning individuals’ diversity under the law. In the first part, the paper presents the idea that has attracted most of the attention of the legal debate on diversity, that is, the idea that people should be conceived by the law as (formally and abstractly equal) right-holders. The second part of the paper analyzes the critiques that have been addressed against this view, focusing in particular on the reduced capacity of formal/abstract equality to confront, not with an equally formal/abstract idea of diversity, but with the actual stratification and inner dynamics of …

股权分置改革中的行政授予与补偿协商:公法与私法的融合, Wen-Yeu Wang, Jianlin Chen

Jianlin Chen

中国的股权分置改革一方面要使非流通股股东取得流通权,另一方面也要让流通股股东获得合理补偿以求改革能够稳定推进. 传统观点下的契约理论和行政征收理论并不能适切解释中国的股权分置改革方案. 在公,私法融合背景下,美国学者新近提出的行政授予 (regulatory givings)学说，可与大陆法上的行政行为附款理论相互协力，为改革方案提供正当性基础。改革中采用财产法则而非补偿法则保障流通股股东的权益，实属符合经济效率之举. 然而，本方案仍有诸多值得改进之处.

The Many Faces Of Equity In Private Law. A Survey Of The European Civil Law, Francesca Fiorentini Prof., Mauro Bussani Prof.

Francesca Fiorentini Prof.

No abstract provided.

Judicial Independence And The Rule Of Law: Lessons From Post-Menem Argentina, Christopher J. Walker

Christopher J. Walker

Argentina, like much of Latin America, has historically been plagued by what some call delegative democracy or a democracy without any developed rule of law. However, the Kirchner Administration has brought a glimmer of hope to the twentieth-first-century Argentine democracy. President Néstor Kirchner was elected in 2003, after what was probably the most serious institutional, financial, and economic crisis in Argentina in recent times. When elected, Kirchner promised to address the perceived lack of independence of the Supreme Court and to restore the rule of law. This paper explains why Kirchner's efforts, without more, will not be enough to (re-)build …

略论法国行政法中的裁量权及其司法控制 [On The Judical Control Of Discretionary Power In French Administrative Law], Yongxi Chen

Clement Yongxi Chen

行政裁量权在普通法的行政法中占有举足轻重的地位，与此相比，裁量权在法国行政法中并没有受到同等规格的待遇。裁量权在普通法的行政法学著作中常以专章出现，而在法国行政法的教材中，它往往分散于论述合法性原则的各个章节之中，较少被集中研究。个中原因，大约可举出两点。一是，在名称上，它留有旧制度的痕迹——在十九世纪最高行政法院的判例中，“‘裁量行为（actes discrétionnaires）’指的是不受任何诉讼质疑的行政行为” 。在很多时候，“裁量权”意味着强大的行政权力。尽管20世纪以来的行政法院判例已发展出数种技术，在较大程度上将裁量权置于司法审查之下，但是，裁量权总是含有一种不让法学家和律师信任的意味。二是，在法国行政法学者的眼里，普通法、尤其是英国普通法下的行政法，偏重对行政行为的审查，可看作一个审查体系（système de contrôle），相比之下，法国行政法的外延更为广阔，是一个规则体系（système de règle），它以合法性原则（principe de légalité，也被称为行政法治原则 ）为核心，涵盖了行政组织、行政行为等各个方面的多种类、多层次的规范，这些规范按照各自所属的渊源位阶高低，组合成一个宏大而精密的凯尔森式的规则体系 。因此，对裁量权的认识，应该在合法性原则的框架内进行。

一方面，法学家承认裁量权的重要性，认为合法性原则没有排斥行政机关拥有决定的自由——裁量权，而且，从这个角度看，裁量权构成了对合法性原则的限制。另一方面，法学家强调裁量权不等于“任意裁断”，倾向于将它置于合法性原则的影响之下，坚持裁量权只不过是“在（至少）两种合乎合法性原则的决定或行为之间选择的权力”，自由裁量永远只是在法律允许范围内的自由裁量。

在这种颇有点相互矛盾的心态的推动下，不仅法学理论尝试调和行政自主和法治要求之间的张力，行政法官也坚持不懈地创造出新的审查技术，尤其是“明显错误”审查、“损益表” 比例审查等，因应社会需求的变化对不断膨胀的行政裁量施加判例法上的约束，又力图避免一刀切式的羁束。下文将首先介绍法国行政法学对裁量权概念、性质和意义的看法，其后再结合判例考察在裁量权在司法实践中受到的控制。

Russian Style Of Civil Procedure, Dmitry Maleshin

Dmitry Maleshin

No abstract provided.

The Migration Of Constitutional Ideas, Sujit Choudhry

Sujit Choudhry

The migration of constitutional ideas across jurisdictions is one of the central features of contemporary constitutional practice. The increasing use of comparative jurisprudence in interpreting constitutions is one example of this. In this 2007 book, leading figures in the study of comparative constitutionalism and comparative constitutional politics from North America, Europe and Australia discuss the dynamic processes whereby constitutional systems influence each other. They explore basic methodological questions which have thus far received little attention, and examine the complex relationship between national and supranational constitutionalism - an issue of considerable contemporary interest in Europe. The migration of constitutional ideas is …