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La eutanasia en España
No pocas personas, organizaciones e instituciones han sido excluidas del proceso de elaboración de la Ley de Regulación de la Eutanasia en España. Se optó por tramitarla de modo abreviado, sin que apenas pudiera existir debate público. Fue presentada por el partido que apoya al Gobierno de coalición, sin informe del Comité de Bioética. Apenas hubo debate parlamentario, pues se considera la política una mera cuestión de votos. Tramitada como proposición, un Gobierno con mayoría puede impedir la participación de órganos consultivos, y así se hizo. Sus promotores pueden intentar sofocar el debate público, pero no pueden impedirlo. Este volumen recoge algunas de esas voces discrepantes —médicos, juristas y filósofos—, para facilitar a los lectores otros puntos de vista y promover un sano pluralismo que favorezca la salud democrática.
La universidad
La Universidad debe ser lo que ha sido durante siglos y debiera seguir siendo hoy y mañana: una institución que, lejos acomodarse a la mentalidad utilitarista y mercantilista que predominan en la actualidad, busca el conocimiento de la realidad como fin, y no como mero medio para la obtención de un beneficio o de un puesto de trabajo. No renunciamos a que la Universidad proporcione una buena formación que capacite profesionalmente a quienes pasan por ella, sino a la mera transmisión de una formación estrictamente profesional, desprovista de aquel bagaje cultural e intelectual que pasa por la lectura de los grandes autores, de esos gigantes a los que necesitamos subirnos para contemplar...
Post 9/11 and the State of Permanent Legal Emergency
The terrorist attacks occurred in the United States on 11 September 2001 have profoundly altered and reshaped the priorities of criminal justice systems around the world. Atrocities like the 9/11 attacks, the Madrid train bombings of March 2003, and the terrorist act to the United Kingdom of July 2005 threatened the life of democratic nations. The volume explores the response of democratic nation-states to the problems of terrorism and counter-terrorism within the framework of the Rule of Law. One of the primary subjects of study is the ways in which the interests of the state (security from external threats, the maintenance of civil peace, and the promotion of the commonwealth) are balanced or not with the liberty and freedom of the citizens of the state. The distinctive aspect of this focus is that it brings a historical, political, philosophical and comparative approach to the contemporary shape and purposes of the criminal justice systems around the world.
La prisión y las instituciones punitivas en la investigación histórica
La Historia Social de las Instituciones Punitivas está necesitada en España de encuentro y debate, de confrontación y colaboración entre investigadores e investigadoras. Solo así logrará hacerse visible e inteligible como tendencia historiográfica y sobre todo como apuesta teórico-metodológica, porque de hecho ya es más que creíble como práctica historiográfica. Aquí, en este libro, junto a los logros también se perfilan las carencias y los retos más acuciantes. Lejos de buscar una autonomía extemporánea, la Historia Social de las Instituciones Punitivas quiere buscar su propia viabilidad a base de intersecciones y buenas mezclas. Esos objetivos se planteaba el Grupo de Est...
Death by Effigy
On July 21, 1578, the Mexican town of Tecamachalco awoke to news of a scandal. A doll-like effigy hung from the door of the town's church. Its two-faced head had black chicken feathers instead of hair. Each mouth had a tongue sewn onto it, one with a forked end, the other with a gag tied around it. Signs and symbols adorned the effigy, including a sambenito, the garment that the Inquisition imposed on heretics. Below the effigy lay a pile of firewood. Taken together, the effigy, signs, and symbols conveyed a deadly message: the victim of the scandal was a Jew who should burn at the stake. Over the course of four years, inquisitors conducted nine trials and interrogated dozens of witnesses, w...
Dystopias of Infamy
Insults, scorn, and verbal abuse—frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter—are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and reinforce the collective identity of those perceived to be a threat to an idealized society. In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Spain. Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary works, archival research, religious and political literature, and iconographic documents, Dystopias of Infamy traces how the production of insults haunts the imaginary of power, provoking latent anxieties about individual and collective resistance to subjectification. Of particular note is Cervantes’s tendency to parody regulatory fantasies about infamy throughout his work, lampooning repressive law for its paradoxical potential to instigate the very defiance it fears.
The New Global Law
The dislocations of the worldwide economic crisis, the necessity of a system of global justice to address crimes against humanity, and the notorious 'democratic deficit' of international institutions highlight the need for an innovative and truly global legal system, one that permits humanity to re-order itself according to acknowledged global needs and evolving consciousness. A new global law will constitute, by itself, a genuine legal order and will not be limited to a handful of moral principles that attempt to guide the conduct of the world's peoples. If the law of nations served the hegemonic interests of Ancient Rome, and international law served those of the European nation-state, then a new global law will contribute to the common good of all humanity and, ideally, to the development of durable world peace. This volume offers a historical-juridical foundation for the development of this new global law.
Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History
The Great Christian Jurists series comprises a library of national volumes of detailed biographies of leading jurists, judges and practitioners, assessing the impact of their Christian faith on the professional output of the individuals studied. Spanish legal culture, developed during the Spanish Golden Age, has had a significant influence on the legal norms and institutions that emerged in Europe and in Latin America. This volume examines the lives of twenty key personalities in Spanish legal history, in particular how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law. Each chapter discusses a jurist within his or her intellectual and political context. All chapters have been written by distinguished legal scholars from Spain and around the world. This diversity of international and methodological perspectives gives the volume its unique character; it will appeal to scholars, lawyers, and students interested in the interplay between religion and law.
Los gitanos y las gitanas de España a mediados del siglo XVIII
La historia del pueblo gitano en España está repleta de desencuentros, fruto del choque cultural de dos concepciones diferentes del mundo. Desde 1499, fecha de la primera disposición represora, el “problema” gitano se erigió en una herencia irresoluta, sin que las medidas excluyentes y violentas consiguieran reducirlos a la forma de vida mayoritaria de la sociedad. Con el tiempo, el conflicto étnico se agravó y propició la creación de un estereotipo negativo que dotó al gitano de una presunción de culpabilidad, como un criminal potencial al que había que controlar y castigar por pertenecer a tan “incorregible gente”. Criminalizadas sus costumbres, su forma de vida pasó a ser sinónimo de vicio y delito, hasta que en 1749 se pretendió capturar a todos los gitanos y gitanas para su expulsión. Sin embargo, se decidió aprovechar tanta mano de obra barata para emplearla en diferentes destinos. Los gitanos varones fueron confinados como forzados en los arsenales peninsulares, y las mujeres, encerradas en hospicios y casas de misericordia. Separación física que pretendió evitar la reproducción y supervivencia del pueblo gitano en España
Women Build the Welfare State
In this pathbreaking history, Donna J. Guy shows how feminists, social workers, and female philanthropists contributed to the emergence of the Argentine welfare state through their advocacy of child welfare and family-law reform. From the creation of the government-subsidized Society of Beneficence in 1823, women were at the forefront of the child-focused philanthropic and municipal groups that proliferated first to address the impact of urbanization, European immigration, and high infant mortality rates, and later to meet the needs of wayward, abandoned, and delinquent children. Women staffed child-centered organizations that received subsidies from all levels of government. Their interest ...
