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Ecuador’s “Good Living”: Crises, Discourse, and Law by Gallegos Anda, presents a critical approach towards the concept of Buen Vivir that was included in Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution. Due to its apparent legal novelty, this normative formula received much praise from multiple civil society and academic circles by forging what some argued to be a new development paradigm based on Andean epistemologies. Gallegos Anda theorizes this important phenomenon through an inductive analysis of context and power relations. Through a masterful navigation through epistemological fields, the author offers a critical theory of Buen Vivir that focuses on changing citizenship regimes, a retreating state, politicised ethnic cleavages, discursive democracy and the emergence of an empty signifier. Gallegos-Anda is the first to situate Buen Vivir in a theoretical context grounded in international human rights law.
From the perspective of a number of different social science disciplines, this book explores the ways in which the election of politicians can be made more fair and credible by adopting a human rights approach to elections. It discusses existing international standards for the conduct of elections and presents case studies relating to jurisdictions within Europe, especially those emerging from conflict or from an authoritarian past, which demonstrate how problems occur and can be addressed. Significant advances have been achieved through the Council of Europe’s soft and hard law frameworks but the book demonstrates that much more needs to be done to ensure that these and other standards ar...
"All over the world, in all democratic States, independently of having a legal system based on the common law or on the civil law principles, the courts – special constitutional courts, supreme courts or ordinary courts – have the power to decide and declare the unconstitutionality of legislation or of other State acts when a particular statute violates the text of the Constitution or of its constitutional principles. This power of the courts is the consequence of the consolidation in contem-porary constitutionalism of three fundamental principles of law: first, the existence of a written or unwritten constitution or of a fundamental law, conceived as a superior law with clear supremacy ...
While telemedicine was not a new concept before the COVID-19 pandemic, it has certainly helped to propel telehealth as a popular solution and tool for patients to continue to use well after the impacts of COVID-19 have been felt. However, telehealth also provided solutions for health institutions faced with the challenge of preparing the next generation of medical professionals remotely. Telemedicine allowed medical educators to accompany students in their first encounters with patients and to simulate practical scenarios. Through the pandemic, educators have striven to be more creative and propose solutions to overcome adversities such as language barriers, access to technological infrastru...
This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading scholars in international and constitutional law, social sciences, and international relations to present a systematic as well as critical analysis of the impact of the Inter-American System of Human Rights and the legal mechanisms that allow for that impact.
Il volume costituisce la raccolta selezionata degli scritti di alcuni dei partecipanti all’edizione speciale del Corso di Alta formazione in Giustizia costituzionale e tutela giurisdizionale “Alessandro Pizzorusso” svoltosi presso l’Università di Pisa, per la prima volta telematicamente, dal 11 al 22 gennaio 2021. La ratio dei numerosi lavori scientifici selezionati e qui presentati si fonda sulla volontà, per un verso, di valorizzare le ricerche scientifiche portate avanti dai diversi Autori nei loro Paesi di provenienza e, per altro verso, di rafforzare la necessità di un continuo confronto tra realtà ordinamentali anche molto eterogenee tra loro. L’ulteriore obiettivo è, dunque, quello di interrogarsi intorno al filo rosso costituito dal tema della tutela dei diritti nel rapporto tra giurisdizioni interne e sovranazionali, per comprendere le molteplici problematiche e le interessanti declinazioni emerse dai contributi.
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.
Este libro reúne las contribuciones presentadas en distintos seminarios organizados por el Instituto Max-Planck de Derecho Público Comparado y Derecho Internacional Público, en cooperación con la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, el Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y el Programa Estado de derecho de la Fundación Konrad Adenauer. La obra se desarrolla a partir de dos elementos comunes: la revisión del cumplimiento de las sentencias emitidas por el Tribunal Europeo y la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, así como el impacto generado por las medidas de reparación ordenadas. A partir de ello, se abordan las diferentes ...
Este libro es una manifestación de política prefigurativa de tipo jurídico. Una forma de activismo en la que un grupo adopta las estructuras y el estilo de razonamiento que promueve, modelando los objetivos políticos y sociales que se persiguen, bajo la premisa de dejar de lado la creencia de la inevitabilidad de las estructuras existentes y emprender la experiencia de poner en práctica ideas atrevidas. La reescritura de sentencias no es la única modalidad de política prefigurativa de tipo jurídico que existe, pero es una de las que más ha llamado la atención del pensamiento feminista e igualitario en los años recientes. Esta obra constituye el primer ejercicio de este tipo en Mé...
Las Lecciones de Derecho Constitucional presentan una serie de reflexiones en torno a las principales características del constitucionalismo colombiano y, en particular, aquellas que defienden las características de nuestro Estado social de derecho. El primer tomo hace un estudio de los asuntos teóricos, conceptuales y sustanciales del derecho constitucional en general, como su importancia, al concepto de Constitución, el poder constituyente, la definición y elementos del Estado y las formas de gobierno. También se estudian el importante papel que cumplen los derechos fundamentales con restricción del poder, el rol de la jurisdicción constitucionaly la apertura del derecho constitucional frente al derecho internacional. Por último, se analizan aspectos novedosos como el neoconstitucionalismo, la interpretación constitucional y la ponderación.