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This volume focuses on the rights of minorities. Minorities are often subject to discrimination and individuals find themselves being rejected by the majority. In such cases, people belonging to a minority suffer through hostile situations. Minorities discussed in this book are defined in terms of cultural groups, migrants, displaced persons, sexual minorities (sexual identity). As with the previous volume, readers are informed about the concept of human rights, as an instrument through which civil society tries to eliminate the hostility and suffering of minorities and restores a situation of normality. Minorities must also accept that a democratic society is governed by majority rule and t...
The rule of law represents the heart of constitutionalism. Public power can only be legitimately exercised if it is based on and complies with the law. The Constitution and its fundamental values – human dignity, freedom and equality – are the ultimate sources of orientation for the rule of law. Domestic rule of law is complemented by its external dimension, the duty to respect international law and, for EU member states, supranational law. For the World Jurist Association, the realization of the Rule of Law has been the central concern since its founding more than 60 years ago. Its biennial world congresses, which bring together leading figures from politics, the judiciary and academia ...
Equity is a multi-faceted subject, an authentic crossroads of problems. The perspective of this study is, as a result, a mix of focuses, which includes: the philosophy of law, general legal theory, justice theory, the history of law, comparative law, legal dogma, etc. In this book, as in various earlier studies of the author, she uses the "three-dimensional" method, which facilitates a stratified focus in agreement with three levels: facts, norms, and values. The subject of equity has never been analysed as completely as in this work. It includes a dynamic study of the different types of equity throughout history and in the different legal systems; the concept, content, limits, functions and types of equity; the relationship between equity and related ideas, and equity in all the branches of the legal order.
What this book intends to do is to study three-dimensionalism (the distinction values-norms-facts) not in what could be called its historical dimension, but in its substantive aspect, as a “form” that, when applied to different legal themes, would add a “material content” to the three-dimensional theory. We can point out, as a study plan, the distinction between “three” perspectives: Those of the legal norm, of the legal order, and the legal relationship. Three-dimensionalism also appears in this work when one analyzes the “three” phases of the life of the law: The formation, the interpretation, and the application; and in the distinction between the “three” characteristics of the legal order: Fullness, coherence, and unity—the theory of legal validity, intended as legitimacy, as validity strictly speaking, or as effectiveness.
El libro Análisis e implicaciones de los derechos sociales tiene como objetivo estudiar este tipo de derechos apreciando grandes quiebras en muchas ocasiones, lo que conlleva que las personas y grupos en los que se integran no puedan llevar una vida digna. Desde ese punto de vista, después de examinar el significado del Estado social de Derecho, la operatividad de los derechos sociales y las vías de desarrollo de sus garantías; nos centramos en derechos sociales concretos como es el caso del derecho a la alimentación y al agua, a la protección de la salud, al trabajo, a la Seguridad Social y a la renta básica, a la educación y a la vivienda. En este sentido, las acciones de los Estad...
Caminhamos para o fim de um ciclo no decurso do qual, a nós juristas, nos apontaram sempre a natureza técnica da nossa identidade matricial. Tentando libertar-se dos parâmetros do positivismo jurídico, a crescente maré pós-positivista vem dando à luz diferentes formas de interpretar as funções de um novo direito. Aqui, entre nós e os espaços mundiais onde os direitos se confrontam, que instrumento é esse que, como conjunto de normas, se pretende reinventar como prática social? Quais as características do almejado sistema jurídico e dos seus novos operadores? Em Portugal, por onde temos que começar?
El Anuario de Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado es una publicación científica especializada que, desde su fundación en 1985, aparece ininterrumpidamente en el mes de octubre de cada año, en un único volumen de unas novecientas páginas. Tiene como objetivo, al que responde su contenido temático, la investigación y el es-tudio de las cuestiones propias del Derecho Eclesiástico estatal: libertad religiosa y de creencias, derechos humanos relacionados con las convicciones morales, relaciones entre los Estados y las Confesiones religiosas, Derecho matrimonial y de familia, Derecho patrimonial y fiscal de las entidades religiosas, relaciones entre las Confesiones en los ámbitos internacio...
Uno de los temas recurrentes y tradicionales de la Filosofía del Derecho lo constituye el de las relaciones entre Derecho y moral. La reflexión sobre el alcance de la libertad de conciencia, y su lugar en el sistema de los derechos fundamentales, puede contemplarse como una cuestión derivada de este problema más general. Al mismo tiempo, el régimen de la libertad de conciencia abarca cuestiones tan complejas y, sobre todo, tan urgentes como la articulación de la democracia en contextos multiculturales o el alcance de la objeción de conciencia. Sobre estos temas versó el curso sobre Libertad ideológica y objeción de conciencia. Pluralismo y valores en Derecho y Educación, en el que se encuentra su origen este libro, cuyo hilo conductor lo constituye la tensión entre el mínimo de consenso sobre los valores que estructuran la convivencia en una sociedad democrática y la salvaguarda de la libertad de conciencia como una condición imprescindible para poder hablar de la democracia misma.
A crescente porosidade das fronteiras económicas, financeiras,políticas e jurídicas tem posto em causa quer a monocentricidadedo direito vestefaliano, quer a dogmática que o tem sustentado. A unidade é posta em causa pela multiplicidade, a hierarquia pelaflexibilidade e a permanência pela rapidez. Neste novo contexto, sóa figura forte de um jurista que seja um verdadeiro gestor de complexidades normativas e valorativas poderá repor a integridade do debilitadodireito que o positivismo nos legou. Como estruturar estejurista? Como deve ele compreender a natureza do empreendimentojurídico?