The following paper develops the criteria to draw the conceptual border between "taking" and "regulation" of property, stated the need to contest the ruling of the Constitutional Court in the case 245-246. In this case, the Court holds that taking and regulation share a common conceptual ground and are only to be distinguished by the extension of their respective economical effects
The Association Agreement between Chile and the European Union contains a chapter about Dispute Settlement Resolution that overlaps to the system established in the Dispute Settlement Understanding of the World Trade Organization. In order to avoid conflicts of Jurisdiction, the Parties agreed about a forum exclusion clause. In this context, if one dispute settlement procedure...
This article discusses the problems that the use of metatags in Internet pages generates in North American jurisprudence and the application of this principles in the Spanish law system
From the basic mining law principle (eliminating the power of disposition granted to owners of those lands that contain specific mineral substances), the author analyzes the two systems of laws governing exploration of minerals on public domain land which have existed in history and comparative law. On the one hand, there is the royalty system (regalía), in which the minerals are...
Biographic profile of an outstanding lawyer of the Twentieth Century. The author highlights the political and social passions that occupied her life. She emphasizes her interest for real cases and the evolution she was able to trace and influence in the decisions of Courts; and also the nature of her publications as writings of theses
BIBLIOGRAFÍA Agamben, Giorgio, Estado de Excepción (homo sacer II, 1) (trad. Antonio Gimeno Cuspinera, Pre-Textos, Valencia, octubre 2004), 135 pp.El "Stato di Eccezione" de Agamben, profesor de Filosofía de la Universidad de Verona, busca ofrecer una respuesta respecto de cuál es la naturaleza del estado de excepción constitucional1. La hipótesis del a. es que "la declaración...
BIBLIOGRAFÍA BARRANCO AVILÉS, María del Carmen, Derechos y decisiones interpretativas (Marcial Pons-Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Bartolomé de las Casas, Madrid, 2004, 158 pp. El libro que se reseña contiene un interesante y completo estudio sobre la interpretación judicial y en especial sobre la que tiene como objeto a las normas iusfundamentales de la Constitución...
BIBLIOGRAFÍA NICOLÓ TROCKER and VICENZO VARANO, The reforms of civil procedure in comparative perspectiva (Giappichelli Editore, Torino, Quaderni CESIFIN, nuova serie, 2005), 275 pp. Seguramente se compartirá conmigo que uno de los aportes más llamativos y significativos de la doctrina procesal civil italiana a partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XX ha estado en la perspectiva o...
BIBLIOGRAFÍA LA TECHNIQUE DU PLAN O EL MÉTODO FRANCÉS DE REDACTAR TEXTOS JURÍDICOS* Marie-Laure Martínez** ** Magíster en Derecho de la Empresa U.C. Doctoranda en Derecho PUC. La autora le agradece a Nathalie Walker Silva, sus comentarios a este trabajo. 1. En 2003 fue publicada en Francia una obra titulada La doctrine. Sus autores, Philippe Jestaz y Christophe Jamin, ambos...
Revista Chilena de Derecho, vol. 33 N°1, pp. 167 - 176 [2006] COMENTARIOS DE JURISPRUDENCIAS LA RELACIÓN DE CAUSALIDAD: ¿QUAESTIO FACTI O QUAESTIO IURIS?Comentario a sentencia de Corte Suprema, 26 de enero de 2004* Hugo A. Cárdenas** ** Abogado. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Doctorando. Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileINTRODUCCIÓNLa relación de causalidad ha sido...
COMENTARIOS DE JURISPRUDENCIAS LA FALTA DE JURISDICCIÓN RATIONE TEMPORIS EN EL CASO LUCCHETTI. Comentario a laudo del Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias Relativas a Inversiones, 7 de febrero de 2005* Sebastián López Escarcena** ** Magíster en Derecho, Universidad de Leiden, Países Bajos, Abogado y Licenciado en Derecho, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile...
The Securities and Insurance Superintendency has resolved the "Almacenes Paris case" widening the concept of securities public offer. For the first time, and only in certain cases, it has allowed public offers of non-registered securities which registration has been filed. This contributes to the transactions' flexibility and to perfect the securities markets
One of the essential characteristics of classical natural law is to acknowledge that neither man nor society is the measure of what is just. The true measure can be found in a non-human Intelligence, known in the early republican life of the United States as necessary in order to avoid an undue cult of society. Currently, however, both democratic myths and doctrines of individual...
The so-called system of legal or "assessed" evidence (prueba legal o tasada) is soon to be abandoned in Chilean law. It is to be replaced by the so-called system of "sane criticism" (sana crítica), i.e. a judge-based assessment of the value of the evidence brought up in a particular trial. It is therefore more urgent than ever to determine what the sana crítica really is, which...
It has been understood that many of the problems that the consumer suffers are consequence of the scarce knowledge or voluntary ignorance of the social reality in that the instruments created by the legislator should be unwrapped. In this wide context of legislatives and jurisprudencial advances the exam of the jurisdictional protection of collective and diffuse interests is...
Aging should not be analyzed as a mere biological process. By the contrary, it must be dealt with within the broader context of public policies and legislation. In this sense, the author assumes the existence of an ethic and a law which are specific to the elderly people. She provides global data and an overview of the judges' way to deal with the elderly in the framework of...
Two of the most products of the development of the rule of law in modern Europe have been the concept of separation of powers and the gradual subjection of all public authorities to judicial supervision. These two phenomena have not been fully realized in Chile. In many cases, Chilean public agencies remain free of a complete judicial review by independent and impartial courts...
The author presents us the life and works of Chilean lawyer Rafael Fernandez Concha, who was both a philosopher and a theologist from the nineteenth century, and a man of outstanding erudition and speculative talent. His contribution to the law, as enclosed in his four most important books, is well-known in Church Law, Law Education, Natural Law and Thomist Philosophy of...
BIBLIOGRAFÍA BARRANCO AVILÉS, María del Carmen, Derechos y decisiones interpretativas (Marcial Pons-Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Bartolomé de las Casas, Madrid, 2004, 158 pp. El libro que se reseña contiene un interesante y completo estudio sobre la interpretación judicial y en especial sobre la que tiene como objeto a las normas iusfundamentales de la Constitución...
COMENTARIOS DE JURISPRUDENCIAS LA FALTA DE JURISDICCIÓN RATIONE TEMPORIS EN EL CASO LUCCHETTI. Comentario a laudo del Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias Relativas a Inversiones, 7 de febrero de 2005* Sebastián López Escarcena** ** Magíster en Derecho, Universidad de Leiden, Países Bajos, Abogado y Licenciado en Derecho, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile...