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Eugenio Bulygin is a distinguished representative of legal science and legal philosophy as they are known on the European continent - no accident, given the role of the civil law tradition in his home country, Argentina. Over the past half-century, Bulygin has engaged virtually all major legal philosophers in the English-speaking countries, including H.L.A. Hart, Ronald Dworkin, and Joseph Raz. Bulygin''s essays, several written together with his eminent colleagueand close friend Carlos E. Alchourrón, reflect the genre familiar from Alf Ross''s On Law and Justice, Hans Kelsen''s Pure Theory of Law, and Georg Henrik von Wright''s Norm and Action. Bulygin''s wide-ranging interests include most of the topics found under the rubric of analytical jurisprudence -interpretation and judicial reasoning, validity and efficacy of law, legal positivism and the problem of normativity, completeness and consistency of the legal system, the nature of legal norms, and the role of deontic logic in the law. The reader will take delight in the often agreeably unorthodox character of Bulygin''s views and in his hard-hitting arguments in defence of them. He challenges the received opinion on gaps in the law, on legal efficacy, on permissory norms, and on the criteriafor legal validity. Bulygin''s essays have been wellnigh inaccessible in the past, appearing in specialized journals, often in Spanish or German. They are now available for the first time in an English-language collection.

Eugenio Bulygin is a distinguished representative of legal science and legal philosophy as they are known on the European continent - no accident, given the role of the civil law tradition in his home country, Argentina. Over the past half-century, Bulygin has engaged virtually all major legal philosophers in the English-speaking countries, including H.L.A. Hart, Ronald Dworkin, and Joseph Raz. Bulygin''s essays, several written together with his eminent colleagueand close friend Carlos E. Alchourrón, reflect the genre familiar from Alf Ross''s On Law and Justice, Hans Kelsen''s Pure Theory of Law, and Georg Henrik von Wright''s Norm and Action. Bulygin''s wide-ranging interests include most of the topics found under the rubric of analytical jurisprudence -interpretation and judicial reasoning, validity and efficacy of law, legal positivism and the problem of normativity, completeness and consistency of the legal system, the nature of legal norms, and the role of deontic logic in the law. The reader will take delight in the often agreeably unorthodox character of Bulygin''s views and in his hard-hitting arguments in defence of them. He challenges the received opinion on gaps in the law, on legal efficacy, on permissory norms, and on the criteriafor legal validity. Bulygin''s essays have been wellnigh inaccessible in the past, appearing in specialized journals, often in Spanish or German. They are now available for the first time in an English-language collection.

Eugenio Bulygin is a distinguished representative of legal science and legal philosophy as they are known on the European continent - no accident, given the role of the civil law tradition in his home country, Argentina. Over the past half-century, Bulygin has engaged virtually all major legal philosophers in the English-speaking countries, including H.L.A. Hart, Ronald Dworkin, and Joseph Raz. Bulygin's essays, several written together with his eminent colleague and close friend Carlos E. Alchourrón, reflect the genre familiar from Alf Ross's On Law and Justice, Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law, and Georg Henrik von Wright's Norm and Action. Bulygin's wide-ranging interests include most of the topics found under the rubric of analytical jurisprudence - interpretation and judicial reasoning, validity and efficacy of law, legal positivism and the problem of normativity, completeness and consistency of the legal system, the nature of legal norms, and the role of deontic logic in the law. The reader will take delight in the often agreeably unorthodox character of Bulygin's views and in his hard-hitting arguments in defence of them. He challenges the received opinion on gaps in the law, on legal efficacy, on permissory norms, and on the criteria for legal validity. Bulygin's essays have been wellnigh inaccessible in the past, appearing in specialized journals, often in Spanish or German. They are now available for the first time in an English-language collection.

Over the past 30 years, Latin America has lived through an intense period of constitutional change. Some reforms have been limited in their design and impact, while others have been far-reaching transformations to basic structural features and fundamental rights. Scholars interested in the law and politics of constitutional change in Latin America are turning increasingly to comparative methodologies to expose the nature and scope of these changes, to uncover the motivations of political actors, to theorise how better to execute the procedures of constitutional reform, and to assess whether there should be any limitations on the power of constitutional amendment. In this collection, leading and emerging voices in Latin American constitutionalism explore the complexity of the vast topography of constitutional developments, experiments and perspectives in the region. This volume offers a deep understanding of modern constitutional change in Latin America and evaluates its implications for constitutionalism, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

Over the past 30 years, Latin America has lived through an intense period of constitutional change. Some reforms have been limited in their design and impact, while others have been far-reaching transformations to basic structural features and fundamental rights. Scholars interested in the law and politics of constitutional change in Latin America are turning increasingly to comparative methodologies to expose the nature and scope of these changes, to uncover the motivations of political actors, to theorise how better to execute the procedures of constitutional reform, and to assess whether there should be any limitations on the power of constitutional amendment. In this collection, leading and emerging voices in Latin American constitutionalism explore the complexity of the vast topography of constitutional developments, experiments and perspectives in the region. This volume offers a deep understanding of modern constitutional change in Latin America and evaluates its implications for constitutionalism, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

Over the past 30 years, Latin America has lived through an intense period of constitutional change. Some reforms have been limited in their design and impact, while others have been far-reaching transformations to basic structural features and fundamental rights. Scholars interested in the law and politics of constitutional change in Latin America are turning increasingly to comparative methodologies to expose the nature and scope of these changes, to uncover the motivations of political actors, to theorise how better to execute the procedures of constitutional reform, and to assess whether there should be any limitations on the power of constitutional amendment. In this collection, leading and emerging voices in Latin American constitutionalism explore the complexity of the vast topography of constitutional developments, experiments and perspectives in the region. This volume offers a deep understanding of modern constitutional change in Latin America and evaluates its implications for constitutionalism, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

This book provides a fascinating analysis of a single jurisdiction, Brazil, and accounts for both the successes and the failures of its most recent constitutional project, inaugurated by the Constitution of 1988.It sets out the following aspects of the constitutional development and erosion:- the different phases of the promised transition from military rule to a ‘social-democratic constitutionalism’; - the obstacles to democratisation derived from the absence of true institutional reforms in the judicial branch and in the civil-military relationship; - the legal and social practices which maintained a structure that obstructed the emergence of an effective social-democracy, such as the neoliberal pattern, the acceptance in the political field of unlawful organisations, such as the milícias, and the way the digital revolution has been harming the formation of democratic sovereignty. Situating Brazil in the global context of the revival of authoritarianism, it details the factors which are common to the third wave of democratisation reflux. Accounting for those aspects, particular to the Brazilian jurisdiction, it shows that there is a tension in the Brazilian constitution.On the one hand, such constitutionalism was renewed by democratic pressure on governments to undertake social politics since 1988. On the other hand, it retained authoritarian practices through the hands of diverse institutions and political actors.By exploring the ideas of constitutional erosion and collapse, as well as democratic, social and digital constitutionalism, the book presents a comparative analysis of Brazil and other jurisdictions, including the United States, South Africa, and Peru.

Over the past 30 years, Latin America has lived through an intense period of constitutional change. Some reforms have been limited in their design and impact, while others have been far-reaching transformations to basic structural features and fundamental rights. Scholars interested in the law and politics of constitutional change in Latin America are turning increasingly to comparative methodologies to expose the nature and scope of these changes, to uncover the motivations of political actors, to theorise how better to execute the procedures of constitutional reform, and to assess whether there should be any limitations on the power of constitutional amendment. In this collection, leading and emerging voices in Latin American constitutionalism explore the complexity of the vast topography of constitutional developments, experiments and perspectives in the region. This volume offers a deep understanding of modern constitutional change in Latin America and evaluates its implications for constitutionalism, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

This book identifies 2 polarising concepts used by Brazilian mainstream sociology to explain the formation and identity of Brazil as a society: corruption and human rights. As the 1988 Constitution is a milestone in the Brazilian transition to democracy and part of a broader movement of Brazil's integration into international law, the impact of international legal regimes on the attainment of human rights and the fight against corruption is analysed to evaluate the state of Brazilian democracy.The book examines the outcomes of 4 specific international human rights regimes in Brazil, involving rights and policies related to:– the right to food, the fight against hunger, and conditional cash transfer programmes;– the right to health and the public healthcare system;– the right to racial equality and affirmative action in superior education; and– the right to recognition and the protection of Indigenous populations.This approach is then applied to the examination of the international anti-corruption agenda. It focuses on Brazil’s determination to deal with corruption against the backdrop of its worst democratic crisis of the last 35 years using meticulously researched case studies on the most prominent investigations, including Mensalão and Lava Jato (Car Wash). The book traces back to the origins of the international anti-corruption agenda and key legitimising efforts aimed at aligning the discourses with the developmental, good-governance trends, and delves into its repercussions within the Brazilian context, with a glance at their collateral effects in other parts of the world.Thus, the core focus of the work revolves around human rights and the fight against corruption, shedding light on how democracy evolves or recedes over time under their influence.

Su escritura es un testimonio de notas tomadas al vuelo, retazos de sus días en un ruinoso -y carísimo- piso de alquiler, como crónicas bajo un nubarrón de precariedad vital y particularmente amorosa, porque en La Vida a Medias es precario hasta el amor.Para escribir su libro -este libro- se sirve del sentido del humor, de sus pasos de flâneur, de su sufrimiento de amante desbordado, de las noches de fiesta -como si hubiera algo que celebrar-, de divertidos recuerdos de relaciones absurdas, de punzantes reflexiones sobre la ausencia de formalidad y honradez en España.La vida en Madrid es un abanico de fracasos que no consiguen derribar sus anhelos más íntimos, sino que más bien los alimentan: no hay otra salida que buscar el amor y la risa, el bienestar y el civismo, la estabilidad y el sosiego; algo que se parezca, aunque sea mínimamente, a los sueños que sus padres tuvieron para él.

Este texto contiene las ponencias debatidas en el seminario La ponderación en el Derecho , organizado por el Centro de Investigación en Filosofía y Derecho de la Universidad Externado de Colombia durante los días 6 y 7 de julio de 2006. El evento contó con la participación de destacados expertos en el tema de la ponderación. Durante el seminario se expusieron posiciones críticas con respecto a esta importante herramienta de interpretación constitucional y su aplicación práctica en ámbitos específicos del derecho.

El cambio constitucional es una modificación en el conjunto de normas constitucionales válidas. Las constituciones pueden cambiar al menos de siete formas, a saber: promulgación, aceptación, derogación o abrogación explícita, derogación o abrogación implícita, interpretación, mutación infraconstitucional y desuso. La distinción entre disposiciones constitucionales y normas constitucionales facilita la comprensión de estas formas de cambio constitucional''. Las disposiciones constitucionales son los enunciados de una Constitución escrita. Las normas constitucionales son el conjunto de significados que la Constitución escrita expresa o que han sido aceptados por convenciones constitucionales no escritas. Dichos significados pueden formularse como proposiciones prescriptivas que establecen que determinada acción está obligada, prohibida o permitida, o le atribuye una competencia constitucional o inmunidad a un individuo o grupo".

Este texto contiene un conjunto de ensayos sobre la teoría del derecho de Hans Kelsen. Sus autores los han escrito para rendir un homenaje a Stanley Paulson, quien ha dedicado toda su vida intelectual a desvelar el sentido y el fundamento de la teoría de Kelsen. Es un libro dirigido a todos aquellos para quienes las tesis de Kelsen les resulten una fuente de inspiración teoría o de utilidad práctica. La compilación de ensayos que ponemos a disposición de los lectores tiene dos propósitos. El mayor es honrar a Stanley L. Paulson en su Emeritierung, es decir, su paso a profesor emérito. Su generosidad, su carisma y su amistad han unido a quienes participamos en este volumen en el propósito común de celebrar a Stanley.La segunda finalidad es la de presentar un conjunto de trabajos especializados sobre el pensamiento de Kelsen -y su interpretación y periodización por obra de Paulson-. El pensamiento kelseniano parece emerger, si se nos permite la metáfora, como una especie de sol alrededor del que gravitan los demás temas sobre los que Paulson ha escrito siempre con sofisticación y brillantez.