This contribution gives a brief account of the politico-juridical context, as well as of the preparations and negotiations that preceded and resulted in the adoption of United Nations Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) and the establishment of the Ombudsperson of…

This study focuses on the further development of so-called NAFTA Plus and stagnation resulting from the Doha Round of WTO. On the other hand, part of the analysis is about the fact of existence of the FTA framed by the…

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…

This study tries to make a reinterpretation of legal formalism, according to the proceduralist theories of Jon Elster. Indeed, un like the original legal formalism, which proposed a neutral and non-ethically evaluative/ objective explanation of Law, now a days there…

En el presente artículo se sostiene la tesis de que no todo lo que comúnmente se considera acto jurídico unilateral del Estado, lo es. Esta conclusión es alcanzada después de un cuidadoso análisis de la práctica internacional y de la…

The study shows the limits and consequences of implementing a state reform in Mexico. The comparative, historic, politic and legal analyses demonstrate that a profound state reform through the promulgation of an important constitutional reform has failed. On the contrary,…

THIS ARTICLE PRETENDS TO JUSTIFY WHY A CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IS NEEDED IN THE SUBJECT OF CHILDREN'S AND ADOLESCENT'S RIGHTS, A CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM THAT FITS TO INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS, AND TO THE SPECIFIC THEORY OF THIS BRANCH OF LAW. THROUGH A BRIEF…

The peruvian penal code, following the majority trend of the Latinamerican criminal statutes, penalize the euthanasia and the cooperation to suicide. This article wants to analize the content of the article 112 and 113 of the Peruvian Penal Code that…

Mireille Delmas-Marty studies contemporary criminal law based on a guiding observation: “What dominates the juridical land scape is the imprecise, the uncertain, the unstable”. She proposes “replacing the demagogy of simplicity by a pedagogy of complexity”. She examines universalism and…