The study criticizes the understanding of the burden of proof in our judicial system and discusses controversial applications of the burden of proof as a judgment rule in relation to compliance or civil non-compliance, in the field of contractual medical liability and in the specific area of the so-called exceptio non adimpleti contractus of synalagmatic contracts. The analysis...
This work analyses the inner structure and the logical conditions of “understanding” in the field of Law, taking for reference Andrei´s Marmor proposal. The analysis leads to the thesis of the necessary connection between comprehension and semantic realism. Standing upon this thesis, I argue that, the more legal discourses assume the power to autonomously create their own meaning...
This paper claims that, under the Chilean Civil Code, good faith underpins the whole process of implication of contractual terms when a valid contract contains omissions that engender contractual gaps. This is the case regardless of whether the substance of the implied term is defined by the legislator, custom or by judges. Such an approach offers a unitary and coherent treatment...
Considering the fundamental right to life of the conceived, this paper shows the antinomy that arises between two constitutional norms: a domestic norm created by the Peruvian Constitutional Court, and an international norm created by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Both norms made up the constitutional content of the fundamental right to life. Once the antinomy has...
EDITORIALAVANCES DE LA CONVENCIÓN CONSTITUCIONALÁlvaro Paúl1 , Director *Director de la Revista Chilena de Derecho de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileEl llamado Acuerdo por la Paz y la Nueva Constitución, del 15 de noviembre de 2019, dio inicio a un derrotero de cambio constitucional, cuyas bases jurídicas se dieron con la ley 21.200, publicada el día de Nochebuena de...
RECENSIONESLa Inteligibilidad del DerechoJaime Luque Lora* *Universidad de NavarraSi concebimos la filosofía como una conversación constante y milenaria entre los grandes pensadores de cada generación, hay pocos temas que hayan despertado más apasionadas defensas y discrepancias que la (des)conexión entre Derecho, Moral y Política. La inteligibilidad del Derecho es, aun...
RECENSIONESIl potere costituente tra mito e realtáRaúl Madrid* * Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileEl Profesor Sergio Castaño (Investigador Principal de CONICET, Catedrático de Teoría del Estado en la Universidad Nacional del Comahue, doctor en Derecho Político y en Filosofía) es un destacado académico argentino que ha consagrado buena parte de sus investigaciones a...
Beyond the arguments that justify a change in the administrative jurisprudence, the Comptroller-General does not usually give reasons to justify a specific over time implementation of a precedent shift. This paper proposes criteria that will allow the following: solving the problem of how to specify the temporal effects of a change of jurisprudence, limiting the extensive...
The article offers a reconstruction of the categories of concrete and abstract endangerment as harming modalities that are irreducible to the actual damage of a “legal good”. After presenting a characterization of concrete and abstract endangerment grounded upon a redefinition of the general notion of danger as a practical concept, it is shown that the protection provided against...
EDITORIALTIMEO HOMINEM UNIUS LIBRI. EN MEMORIA DE ALEJANDRO GUZMÁN BRITOPatricio Carvajal* *Exdirector de la Revista Chilena de Derecho. Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileHa partido el más brillante de los juristas chilenos, don Alejandro Guzmán Brito (1945-2021). Autor en esta Revista desde su segundo número, en el año 1975, y miembro de nuestro Comité Editorial desde el...
RECENSIONESSUSSKIND, RICHARD (2019): ONLINE COURTS AND THE FUTURE OF JUSTICE (OXFORD, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS) 368 PP.Matías Aránguiz Villagrán* *Shanghai Jiaotong UniversityLa pandemia del Covid-19 intensificó la urgencia por implementar digitalización en procesos sociales. El trabajo, la educación, la salud y la justicia están sufriendo cambios fundamentales producto del uso de...