Global legal goods are the interests and values protected in a global legal space of interaction where multiple legal systems and actors interact, and constitute a lowest common denominator that can both constitute the basis of legal actions that protect…

Starting from Edward T. Hall's assumptions regarding the cultural dimension as the 'hidden dimension' of communication, this study tries to highlight the fact that legal culture vastly influences legal interaction and, hence, varies from system to system. The translation of…

Ninguna fuente del derecho internacional ha generado más polémica y encono entre la doctrina que los principios generales del derecho. Este debate presenta líneas de discusión que van desde los aspectos meramente semánticos del término “principios generales del derecho” hasta…

Recent cooperation agreements involving the exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction of defense and security of the State, have given rise to controversy regarding potential acts of aggression against others. However, before delving into affairs of politics, it is necessary to clarify…

Many actors and academics wonder whether after 15 years the best for Mexico should be to renegotiate or not the NAFTA, and if so, how? However, the reality is that this debate has been solved by President Obama pragmatically as…

If there is any area of law and international law that constitutes a straightforward reflection of the industrial revolutions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, it is undoubtedly the space law. The scientific and technological development that has made possible…

Multilingual terminological resources do not always include valid equivalents of legal terms for two main reasons. Firstly, legal systems can differ from one language community to another and even from one country to another because each has its own history…

In this paper we study the Kantian conception of punishment in the Metaphysics of Morals. We look at Foucault’s reformulation of the right to punish which is mostly a critique of the kantian conception. Then we introduce the conception of…