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Princípios-Tópicos De Hermenêutica Constitucional, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Nov 2007

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.


Access To Community Healthcare For Youth In The Juvenile Justice System: Initial Lessons From The Massachusetts Health Passport Project, Francine Sherman Sep 2007

Access To Community Healthcare For Youth In The Juvenile Justice System: Initial Lessons From The Massachusetts Health Passport Project, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

From 2004-2010, the author directed the Massachusetts Health Passport Project (MHPP), aimed at facilitating continuous access to healthcare for girls and boys in the juvenile justice system in two Massachusetts counties. This article describes the health challenges facing youth, and particularly girls in the juvenile justice system including the significant barriers to health care access that these youth face. It goes on to describe the Massachusetts Health Passport Project, designed to: 1. Improve access to healthcare; 2) Change relevant systems; 3) Improve youth’s social supports; and 4) Improve youth’s health status. The article draws on an evaluation of MHPP to …


Faculty And Male Student Athletes In Higher Education: Racial Differences In The Environmental Predictors Of Academic Achievement, Keith Harrison Jun 2007

Faculty And Male Student Athletes In Higher Education: Racial Differences In The Environmental Predictors Of Academic Achievement, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

Studies have examined the impact of environmental variables on academic achievement among student athletes in the revenue-generating sports of men’s basketball and football. However, while evidence concerning the positive impact of male student athlete and faculty interaction is virtually unequivocal, we are not certain whether the benefits accruing from particular types of interaction vary across different racial/ethnic groups. This study explores the relationship between male Black and White student athletes and faculty as well as the impact of specific forms of student athlete– faculty interaction on academic achievement. Data are drawn from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program’s 2000 Freshman Survey …


Throwing Down The International Gaunlet: Same-Sex Marriage As A Human Right, Vincent Samar Dec 2006

Throwing Down The International Gaunlet: Same-Sex Marriage As A Human Right, Vincent Samar

Vincent Samar

Throwing Down the International Gaunlet: Same-Sex Marriage as a Human Right


Privacy And Same-Sex Marriage: The Case For Treating Same-Sex Marriage As A Human Right, Vincent Samar Dec 2006

Privacy And Same-Sex Marriage: The Case For Treating Same-Sex Marriage As A Human Right, Vincent Samar

Vincent Samar

Privacy and Same-Sex Marriage: The Case for Treating Same-Sex Marriage as a Human Right


From "The Art Of War" To "Being Peace": Mindfulness And Community Lawyering In A Neoliberal Age, Angela P. Harris, Jeffrey Selbin, Margaretta Lin Dec 2006

From "The Art Of War" To "Being Peace": Mindfulness And Community Lawyering In A Neoliberal Age, Angela P. Harris, Jeffrey Selbin, Margaretta Lin

Angela P Harris

No abstract provided.


Liberdade No Mundo Moderno E O Estado Meio, Ivo T. Gico Dec 2006

Liberdade No Mundo Moderno E O Estado Meio, Ivo T. Gico

Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.

A liberdade é elencada como valor supremo de nossa sociedade na Constituição Federal. Seríamos, contudo, um povo livre? Seriam as restrições impostas à liberdade essenciais para garantir outros valores sociais ou mesmo a própria liberdade ou não passa de discurso para legitimar a imposição antidemocrática de valores não-dominantes? O presente artigo é o primeiro de uma série de pequenos ensaios visando incitar inquietude àqueles que acreditam viver em um país livre e democrático.

Freedom is often listed as a supreme value of our society in the Federal Constitution. Are we, however, a free society? Are the restrictions imposed on freedom …


Liberdade De Voto, Ivo T. Gico Dec 2006

Liberdade De Voto, Ivo T. Gico

Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.

Este artigo visa a demonstrar que não vige no Brasil uma democracia plena e livre como se acredita, ilustrando essa tese por meio da análise do chamado voto-dever ou voto-obrigação. É possível que, em um país que se pretende democrático, o mais significante dos atos de cidadania seja, não um direito, mas uma obrigação, haja vista que o próprio conceito de obrigação legal implica necessariamente na redução da esfera de liberdade do indivíduo?

This paper shows the reader that democracy in Brazil is not as free as it seems while analizes the "vote-obligation". Is it possible, in a Democratic State, …


Direito À Informação Ou Deveres De Protecção Informativa Do Estado?,, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Dec 2006

Direito À Informação Ou Deveres De Protecção Informativa Do Estado?,, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

A Liberdade de Informação poderá ser simultaneamente defendida pelo dever de abstenção do Estado na esfera de exercício privado (não perigoso) de cada cidadão ou grupo “ordeiro” de cidadãos, e pelo dever de protecção dos cidadãos e das suas pessoas morais (incluindo obviamente associações e empresas) nos casos em que a ordem natural da rede social equitativa seja rompida, designadamente por fenómenos de massificação arregimentadora, trusts anti-concorrência, violação de direitos fundamentais, etc., e, no limite, crime. Mas o discernimento e ponderação terão que ser muito grandes.


Les Limites Du Pouvoir De Révision Constitutionnelle Entre Le Pouvoir Constituant Et La Constitution Matérielle. Une Illustration Dans Le Contexte Lusophone, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Dec 2006

Les Limites Du Pouvoir De Révision Constitutionnelle Entre Le Pouvoir Constituant Et La Constitution Matérielle. Une Illustration Dans Le Contexte Lusophone, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

May we relate with intellectual profit some 'abstract' constitutional concepts such as "pouvoir constituant", "constitution matérielle" and "limites matériels de révision constitutionnelle"?


Do Constitucionalismo Brasileiro: Uma Introdução Histórica (1824-1988), Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Dec 2006

Do Constitucionalismo Brasileiro: Uma Introdução Histórica (1824-1988), Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

It is not usual to write a constitutional history from the view point of a foreigner. This is a essai of a glimpse of Brazilian constitutional history from the perspective of a Portuguese, descending from Bazilians, descending from Portuguese. In spite of those circunstances, of course the aim was always the possible objectivity in History and in Constitutional Law History.


Citizenship, Residence And Social Security, Mel Cousins Dec 2006

Citizenship, Residence And Social Security, Mel Cousins

Mel Cousins

In two recent cases the Court of Justice has considered the impact of Union citizenship on the long-standing issue of the exportability of social security payments. These decisions clarify (i) the position of the Court in relation to the material scope of the protection provided by Article 18 EC, i.e. that the exercise of free movement is itself sufficient to bring an issue within the scope of the Treaty regardless of whether the issue actually in dispute involves a question of Community law and (ii) that the Court will examine residence requirements as a restriction on the freedoms conferred by …


Symposium Introduction -- Miranda At 40: Applications In A Post-Enron, Post-9/11 World, Donald J. Kochan Dec 2006

Symposium Introduction -- Miranda At 40: Applications In A Post-Enron, Post-9/11 World, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

The groundbreaking case of Miranda v. Arizona raise[d] questions which go to the roots of our concepts of American criminal jurisprudence: the restraints society must observe consistent with the Federal Constitution in prosecuting individuals for crime. This Introduction to the 2007 Chapman Law Review Symposium summarizes the contemporary examination of Miranda's influence, past and present, along with the continuing debate today. The experiences and precedents that have evolved in the past 40 years helps to explore the evolution of the criminal law and procedural dictates set forth in Miranda. Complications with custodial interrogation - and the impulses and incentives involved …


Liberdade De Expressão, Haradja L. Torrens Dec 2006

Liberdade De Expressão, Haradja L. Torrens

Haradja L Torrens

No abstract provided.