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Cuba, Puerto Rico, The Civil Code, And The Problem Of Transculturation, Pedro A. Malavet

Florida Journal of International Law

Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Civil Code, and the Problem of Transculturation

The Resolution Of Conflicts Of Law - A View From Private International Law In Cuba., Taydit Peña Lorenzo

Florida Journal of International Law

The Resolution of Conflicts of Law - A View from Private International Law in Cuba.

Safeguards In The Cuban Legal System For The Promotion And Protection Of Foreign Investment, Marta Moreno Cruz

Florida Journal of International Law

Safeguards in the Cuban Legal System for the Promotion and Protection of Foreign Investment

Instruments Of Environmental Governance: A Guarantee Of Sustainability In Cuba, Dagniselys Toledano Cordero

Florida Journal of International Law

Instruments of Environmental Governance: A Guarantee of Sustainability in Cuba

General Overview Of Cuban Family Law Legislation, Ana María Álvarez-Tabío Albo

Florida Journal of International Law

General Overview of Cuban Family Law Legislation

Environmental Legislation And Institutional Framework In Cuba, Daimar Cánovas González

Florida Journal of International Law

Cuban environmental legislation was not born with the revolutionary process, at least in some of its aspects. Precursors exist from the nineteenth century, provisions related to natural resources, with a clear anthropocentric focus. The Hunting Act [Ley de Caza] of 1884 and the Hunting and Fishing Act [Ley de Caza y Pesca] of January 1909, classified species as useful or harmful, in accordance with a short-term and economic view, to such a point that those species changed place in the space of about 30 years.

In the 1930s, as a consequence of an international trend, the creation of areas under …

Building Bridges: Bringing International Human Rights Home, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

UF Law Faculty Publications

This commentary on "Building Bridges" was prepared in connection with a panel presentation addressing the same theme by Latina/o law professors during the 1995 Hispanic National Bar Association's annual meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It urges that we globalize our domestic legal practice by integrating international human rights norms as a means of developing, expanding and transforming the content and meaning of our human/civil rights jurisprudence. This piece contends that we have a wealth of human rights laws to which we have denied ourselves access in the past and of which we should make greater and better use in …