RECENSIONESROUSSEAU, DOMINIQUE (2019): RADICALIZAR LA DEMOCRACIA. PROPUESTAS PARA UNA REFUNDACIÓN. PRÓLOGO DE JUAN CARLOS HENAO (BOGOTÁ, UNIVERSIDAD EXTERNADO DE COLOMBIA) 202 PP.Tomás de Rementeria Venegas* *Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneEn este momento de absoluta ebullición de la protesta social en el mundo, ya sea lo sucedido en Chile en octubre del año 2019, las...
RECENSIONESRIQUELME PORTILLA, EDUARDO (2019): EL COHECHO PARLAMENTARIO (PAMPLONA, ARANZADI) 245 PP.Rosario Nougués Cossio* *Doctoranda, Universidad de NavarraLa obra que Eduardo Riquelme Portilla nos presenta constituye su tesis doctoral, defendida en 2019 en la Universidad de Navarra, bajo la codirección de los profesores Jesús-María Silva Sánchez y Pablo Sánchez-Ostiz, quienes...
RECENSIONESVERGARA BLANCO, ALEJANDRO (2019): TEORÍA DEL DERECHO: IDENTIDAD Y TRANSFORMACIONES (SANTIAGO, EDICIONES UC) 320 PP.CARLOS PEÑA1 *Universidad Diego PortalesAl comentar esta nueva obra del profesor Alejando Vergara, formularé alguna apreciación crítica respecto de su contenido, como corresponde a una actividad universitaria.El texto es una amplia y pormenorizada...
RECENSIONESCAMPOS MICIN, SEBASTIÁN NICOLÁS (2020): CASO FORTUITO Y TEORÍA DE LA IMPREVISIÓN EN EL DERECHO DE CONTRATOS (SANTIAGO, DER EDICIONES) 251 PÁGS.Hernán Corral Talciani1 *Universidad de los AndesLa pandemia del coronavirus ha incrementado la literatura jurídica nacional sobre el caso fortuito, la teoría de la imprevisión y otras formas para hacer frente al impacto que...
The article contends that the “principle of specialty of state-owned enterprises” (an equivalent of the ultra vires doctrine in corporate law), as advocated by the Chilean Public Law doctrine, is a faulty argument that, on the one hand, deforms the French dogmatic construction on which it is based, and, on the other hand, it cannot be justified on the constitutional principle of...
There is one aspect of the famous 16th and 17th centuries dispute on the ‘Just Titles’ (justos títulos) which has not yet received proper philosophical analysis by scholars, namely: the possibility that, in the case that the Spanish occupation had been unjust, there still remains a title which would allow -or even force- the Crown to retain those lands. This article focuses on...
In the last decades, nudging (non-coercive regulations inspired by insights from behavioral sciences) has received growing use, both at national and comparative level, in diverse areas of general interest. However, some studies suggest that this technique could have a negative impact on disadvantaged social groups. These observations overtly contrast with the scant attention that...
The judgment on the merits of the case on the obligation to negotiate an access to the Pacific Ocean put an end to a judicial adventure that Bolivia started five years before against Chile. It not only resumes more than a century and a half of diplomatic exchanges between both states, but also analyses them from the perspective of international law. Little is new in this judgment...
RecensionesPalanza, Valeria (2019): Checking Presidential Power. Executive Decrees and the Legislative Process in New Democracies (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) 245 pp.Sebastián Soto Velasco* *Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.Valeria Palanza, profesora del Instituto de Ciencia Política de la P. Universidad Católica de Chile, ha escrito una magnífica obra a la que...
recensionesLópez Díaz, Patricia (2019): La tutela precontractual del acreedor. Una aproximación desde el Código Civil chileno y su interrelación con la tutela contractual (Santiago, Thomson Reuters) 304 pp.Feliciano Tomarelli* 1*Universidad de los AndesEn octubre de 1865, el Presidente de la República don José Joaquín Pérez y su Ministro de Justicia don Federico Errázuriz se...
The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea established specific rules for the delineation of the outer limit of the continental shelf in Article 76. This Article contains two formulae and two constraints. Regarding these constraints, the coastal State can apply, whichever is more favorable to its claim, unless the exception established under Article 76 (6), first...
This article describes the role of science in Colombian judicial decision-making processes. It depicts the role that scientific knowledge plays in decision-making. This article allows us to identify the way in which law and science relate. It then explains why science has made the law lose autonomy, and how the relationship between science and law has fallen into biological...
The exclusive use of the goods that they integrate to the public cemeteries, involves a special artificial relationship between matter and Administration. It implies it between both a duality fellow, from the substantial and formal point of view whose causation is a born right to the artificial life under the rules of the Public Right. In the study of the classifications...