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Estudios
Blackwater ante el Derecho internacional: el negocio de la inmunidad
Blackwater is an outstanding civilian staffed American corporation that provides military services under contract to the US Government. Some killings and incidents highlight the challenge of regulating these contractors. Well-established rules of international law apply to States in their relations with private military and security companies. States retain their obligations on the use of force when they contract military services. The UN Security Council should have a say on this subject-mat...
The forced disappearances of people are the object of the recent 2006 International Convention for the protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances, according to which the victims have the right to know the truth, the right to have reparation and an indemnity. This new approach in the International Law of Human Rights has some relevant precedents. The approval by the General Assembly of the Principles on Reparation of the Victims of Human Rights violations is one of them. The oth...
The convention on the International recovery of child support and other Forms of Family maintenance was adopted within the Hague conference on Private Intemational Law in november 2007, with the aim of updating the regulation of international support claims, a topic where the existing instruments seemed not to cover the current needs of the global society. The final negotiation of this instrument with occasion of the 21st Diplomatic session entailed the beginning of a new era becau...
Sistema, fragmentación y contencioso internacional
It is submitted here that the theoretical framework on the discussion about the fragmentation of international law should be the concept of a legal system, where it would eventually appear its nature as a paradigmatic premise in the sense given by Th. S. Kuhn. The article considers, thus, some of the main approaches to law as a normative system in jurisprudence and in international law doctrine, pointing up their noteworthy evolution. Next it deals with the ambiguous meaning of a legal system...
Legal News
I. Introducción. II. Posibles problemas derivados de la intervención de empresas privadas. III. El alcance de la inviolabilidad de los locales consulares, según la Convención de Viena sobre relaciones consulares, y las dificultades existentes para ir más allá de lo previsto en ella. IV. El alcance de la inviolabilidad de los archivos y documentos consulares según la convención. V. La posible evolución del Derecho internacional. VI. A modo de conclusión.
Case Law
Jurisprudencia en materia de derecho internacional público
I. Relación entre el ordenamiento interno y el ordenamiento internacional. – II. Apatridia, Asilo y Refugio. – III. Derechos humanos. – IV. Derecho Internacional Penal. – V. Derecho Comunitario Europeo.
Jurisprudencia española y comunitaria de derecho internacional privado
I. Derecho Judicial Internacional: 1. Competencia judicial internacional. – 2. Reconocimiento de resoluciones extranjeras. – II. Derecho Civil Internacional: 1. Nombre de las personas físicas. 2. Protección de menores. 3. Adopción internacional. 4. Divorcio. 5. Sucesiones. – III. Derecho del Comercio Internacional: 1. Arbitraje. – IV. Dimensión interna del Sistema Español de Derecho Internacional Privado.
Práctica
Crónica de la política exterior española (julio-diciembre 2008)
1. Asuntos generales/Administración Exterior del Estado. – 2. Defensa. Misiones en el exterior. – 3. Desarme/Comercio armas. – 4. Europa/Unión Europea: 4.1 Unión Europea. 4.2 Alemania. 4.3 Francia. 4.4 Gran Bretaña/Gibraltar. 4.5 Grecia. 4.6 Holanda. 4.7 Polonia. 4.8 Rumania. 4.9 Otros Estados europeos: 4.9.1 Kosovo. 4.9.2 Rusia/Conflicto del Cáucaso. 4.9.3 Turquía. – 5. Mediterráneo: 5.1 Marruecos. 5.2 Mauritania. 5.3 Túnez. – 6. Oriente Próximo/Medio. – 7. América: 7.1 Estados Unidos. 7.2 A...
