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Situado el archipiélago de Puerto Rico en el tiempo y espacio, significamos su ubicación entre el Océano Atlántico y el Mar Caribe, siendo la menor y más oriental de las Antillas Mayores. La presente obra tiene como propósito principal estudiar, en panorámica sucinta, en fin, en apretada síntesis, las claves, las líneas maestras, el ordenamiento jurídico puertorriqueño. El derecho es una exigencia existencial; el ser humano requiere, sin duda alguna, de normas y reglas reguladoras de su vida en sociedad. El derecho es, pues, un producto generado por el ser humano para sí mismo. Por ello, la constitución, los derechos y deberes fundamentales, la estructura del estado y su organiz...
This is a time when the rule of law is seriously challenged, when governments threaten deliberately to break the law, and the independence of justice is jeopardised by unrelenting pressure from both the executive and the media. This book aims at contributing to restoring trust in judges as custodians of the law and justice, through a comparison between Civil and Common Law countries. It offers a rare opportunity to gather the expertise of eminent judges and legal authorities from five different countries, providing a unique insight into their work and the way they deliver justice based on their respective professional experience and practise of the law. Far from being a highly technical debate between experts, however, the book is accessible to students and the general public, and raises important contemporary legal issues that involve them both as citizens, with justice as a shared aspiration, and a common attachment to the rule of law.
Provides unique insight into the possibility of creating the rule of law in Russia
Pluralism proceeds from the observation that many associations in liberal democracies claim to possess, and attempt to exercise, a measure of legitimate authority over their members. They assert that this authority does not derive from the magnanimity of a liberal and tolerant state but is grounded, rather, on the common practices and aspirations of those individuals who choose to take part in a common endeavor. As an account of the authority of associations, pluralism is distinct from other attempts to accommodate groups like multiculturalism, subsidiarity, corporatism, and associational democracy. It is consistent with the explanation of legal authority proposed by contemporary legal posit...
Approximately 150 million people worldwide live in legal systems in which there is both a common law and a civil law content, yet there has been little comparative study of the experience of these 'mixed jurisdictions'. Here, the author considers these jurisdictions in a comparative framework, which includes their founding and raisons d'être, as well as the cultural divisions of the jurists and the evolutionary tendencies of their common and civil law components. In addition, he examines the internal contradictions between Anglo-American judicial institutions, methodologies and procedures, and the substantive civil law. The book argues that the legal systems of such far-flung and diverse cultures as the Philippines, Quebec, Scotland and South Africa have many unique and fruitful points of comparison. The conclusion is that these mixed jurisdictions form a closely related 'Third Legal Family' with cohesive traits and tendencies.
Includes sections "Reviews of books" and "Abstracts of archive publications (Western and Eastern Europe)."