This paper aims to understand the possible consequences of the classification or not of Silala, a water resource shared by Chile and Bolivia, in the legal definition of an international watercourse. The main hypothesis proposed is that the unitary whole element of the concept of international watercourses does not preclude Silala from fitting into this legal category. The element...
Nowadays, it is difficult to argue that the inclusion of the doctrine national margin of appreciation is an exclusive matter of the European System of Human Rights Protection. On the contrary, the direct or indirect use of this doctrine by the Inter-American Human Rights System opens a space for discussion about its understanding and development, going beyond the conceptual...
The case-law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has had an invaluable contribution to the protection of indigenous peoples in the Americas. However, its development has not been an easy task. This paper aims to identify the main challenges and problems that this case-law has faced with evaluating their impacts on the human rights of the communities involved. Indeed, the...
While interpreting the American Convention on Human Rights through consultative opinions, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) has also impacted its adjudicatory function on several occasions. In some recent opinions, it is claimed that the Inter-American Court has expanded the scope of its contentious jurisdiction. In this article, we analyze the interpretative...
From the Inter-American instruments and agreements it is possible to identify the relevance of democracy for the States of the Americas. However, this is not a clear concept, consequently this paper presents the minimum rights that have to be protected in order to consider a regime as democratic. The present paper builds the connection between the theory of democracy and the law...
Political rights are a fundamental guarantee in the American Convention on Human Rights; therefore, this article seeks to answer the following question: What are the conventional standards of political rights in the Inter-American Court? Applied a semi-automatic system for searching jurisprudence of this Inter-American Court, within the framework of the use of data analytics...
Convergent notions seek to counter difference by treating global law as a collective agreement implemented by hierarchical arrangements. By contrast, the divergent conceptions seek to manage difference through the coordination of distinct normative orders. There is an ample debate around the discrepancies between these two approaches, but little has been said about their...
Modern international law is largely characterized by its specialized regimes. International commercial law, international protection of human rights and international environmental law are only the most important examples of isolated areas in international law and which are characterized by the establishment of a certain hegemony of their rules. This article analyzes the...
In MemoriamJavier Pérez de Cuéllar (1920-2020)Ena Rocío Carnero Arroyo* * Profesora de Derecho internacional público en la Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Perú.Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1920-2020)Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar Guerra nació el 19 de enero de 1920, en la ciudad de Lima. Fue hijo de Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar y de Rosa Guerra Cevallos. Estudió derecho en la...
This paper analyzes, from the perspective of international law, the impact of the construction of a wall by the United States government on the border with Mexico. Based on studies of experts in ecology, the impact on the ecosystem of the introduction of an aggressive and intrusive element such as the construction of a wall in the border region is analyzed. The border is...
Donald Trump has based his Foreign Policy in the area of international trade on two main objectives. The first one seeks to promote “fair trade” in order to bring down trade deficits, restore reciprocity and balance in the trade relations of the United States with its trading partners and defend American commercial interests against and/or beyond other countries interests. On the...
The Nuclear Agreement signed with Iran was one of the main achievements of the Obama administration and guaranteed the non-production of nuclear weapons in Iran for at least 15 years. However, in May, 2018 President Donald Trump decided to denounce the Nuclear Agreement as a unilateral decision and to reimpose sanctions on Iran, which also involves economic relations with third...
The US-Mexico bilateral relation has always been contradictory: on one hand, official rhetoric handles a confrontational discourse, while reality, on the other, shows that permanent cooperation is the rule. With the arrival of two presidents who define themselves as “anti-establishment”, such as Donald Trump and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, this article analyzes the first months...
The United States of America was the main promoter of multilateralism and the development of international law in the 20th century, the example par excellence was the establishment of the United Nations System. However, Donald Trump’s arrival to the presidency has revealed some challenges for the multilateral sphere in key aspects. Although recent foreign policy actions of his...
The arrival of Donald Trump to the presidency of the USA involved many changes in different areas, however with respect to the regulation of foreign investment this followed the same objective and guidelines that have characterized it since it defined its model of bilateral investment treaty, decades ago. The central priority of the regulation of foreign investment is the...
ReseñasStępień, Bárbara Anna y Becerra Ramírez, Manuel (coords.), Mare Nostrum-Nuestro Mar: estudios sobre derecho del marBrygida Kuźniak* * Profesora Asociada (adjunta con habilitación) en la Universidad Jaguelónica de Cracovia, Polonia. Directora del Departamento de Derecho Internacional Público en la Facultad de Derecho y Administración. La autora desea agradecer a Magdalena...
ReseñasSalmón, Elizabeth, Introducción al sistema interamericano de derechos humanosVirdzhiniya Petrova Georgieva* * Investigadora en el Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas y profesora en la Facultad de Derecho, ambos de la UNAM.En su reciente libro Introducción al sistema interamericano de protección de los derechos humanos, Elizabeth Salmón presenta un panorama crítico del...
Práctica internacional mexicanaImplicaciones de la reforma a la Ley del Servicio Exterior Mexicano y su ReglamentoIngrid Berlanga Vasile1 * Encargada de la sección consular de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores del gobierno de México.El Servicio Exterior Mexicano (SEM) es un cuerpo del Estado cuya misión es promover los intereses de México y de los mexicanos en el exterior...
Práctica internacional mexicanaDeclaración Conjunta México-Estados Unidos del 7 de junio de 2019Manuel Becerra Ramírez* * Investigador en el Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM y en el Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.El jueves 30 de mayo de 2019, el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, anunció una sanción unilateral contra México, mediante la cual se...
Práctica internacional mexicanaResolución 73/257 de la Asamblea General de la ONU sobre el cumplimiento inmediato del fallo AvenaPablo Arrocha Olabuenaga* * Asesor jurídico de la Misión Permanente de México ante la ONU.El 14 de noviembre de 2018 fue ejecutado en Texas el señor. Roberto Ramos Moreno, convirtiéndose en el sexto mexicano ejecutado en absoluta violación al fallo...
This paper analyses the issue of forced internal displacement, caused by armed conflicts and other situations of violence. After exposing the legal framework and its main weaknesses, some of the responses the international community has provided will be presented, such as the Kampala Convention. Afterwards, the matter will be studied in light of the migrants and refugees crisis...
The protocol on amendments to the Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights (Malabo protocol) extends and strengths the jurisdiction of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), to deal with international crimes committed in Africa. This instrument is the fundamental piece around which the first global experience of...
The inequity of advantages and disadvantages between the foreign investors and the States in treaty-based investment arbitration, has entailed to rethink the negotiation of international agreements. In that sense, States are considering the inclusion of commitments for foreign investors, the denial of benefits and the review of the scope and content of some core provisions. In...
This article intends to indetify aspects of the thought of three authors of different cultures and epochs. Francisco de Vitoria, spanish (1483-1546); Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala, quechua/ peruvian (1534/1556 - 1615/1644); Amartya Sen, indian (1933 - ), and in what contributes to the affirmation of the Right to Development of indigenous people. The methodology of the bibliographic...
The elements of the Criminal Law applied to minors accused, investigated, prosecuted and sentenced for the commission of a crime, scope of subjective application, adjective, process and sanctioning measures, varies from one country to another, that is why the Organization of the United Nations, through the Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice, the Convention...