The Chilean student Alejandra Silva defends her master’s thesis on Restorative Justice and Criminal Mediation in Chile
19 october 2020
The research work seeks to expose the current lack of institutionalism residing in the Chilean criminal mediation, in a global scenario of penal justice in which there’s an urge to legitimise alternative channels for criminal conflict resolution.
The Chilean student Lía Arroyo defends her master’s thesis on Social rights and gender equality before constitutional change in Chile
30 september 2020
The premise is that there’s a necessary relationship between social rights and gender equality. It’s a substantive relationship, because gender inequality produces economic vulnerabilities in women which can be progressively neutralised by ensuring the existence provision, the purpose of social rights. It’s methodological, as the equalisation technique for gender approach is related to material equality, a fundamental notion in the theory of social rights.
The Ecuadorian student Ana Ortiz defends her Master’s thesis about the debate on abortion in Ecuador
25 september 2020
The nasciturus, a person not yet born, has been a subject of study with two radically opposite views: the first one recognises its legal personality from conception and from that moment, the consequent necessity of creating a legal protective status for its rights, the most important one being the right to live.
The student Saúl Martínez defends his Master’s Thesis on disciplinary sanction in the civil service in Colombia
24 september 2020
The student describes how disciplinary law is in crisis after the State Council cancelled the sanctions imposed on the mayors of Bogotá and Medellín and Senator Piedad Córdoba, and, above all, with the issuance of the sentence Petro Urrego vs. Colombia on behalf of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).
The Peruvian student César Palacios defends his Master’s Thesis on environmental justice in Peru
22 september 2020
When we refer to environmental law, we are talking about a complex area from its object and definition, even the doctrine is not completely peaceful with regard to its own denomination. But despite this and leaving aside semantic discussions, we can state that the environment is a system where biotic and antibiotic components interact, regardless of genus and species, in which the human being is included and takes part.
Ecuadorian student Francisco Chavez defends his Master’s Degree Final Project on the protection of collective consumer rights in Ecuador
14 september 2020
The following paper firstly demonstrates the current reality of the phenomenon of consumption and how it has influenced society and, obviously, the law, above all because of the configuration of the capitalist system, which has as one of its pillars the exchange of goods, in exchange for a monetary consideration.
Peruvian student Fernando Chávez defends his Master’s Degree Final Project on Mediation, Arbitration and ODR in Consumer Protection in Peru
10 september 2020
The Master’s Degree Final Project is based on the premise that in the framework of globalisation and glocalisation of exchanges, and the immediacy with which consumer conflicts arise, mechanisms are needed that meet the demands and needs of consumers in the field of face-to-face contracting and in the digital environment.
Student Aníbal Acosta defends his Master’s Degree Final Project on the Return of Children in the Argentinean case
26 august 2020
The Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction1 was a product of the consensus of the international community in response to factual situations (abductions and/or unlawful detentions of minors) which resulted in serious disadvantages both for those who were seeking primary protection and for the jurisdictional activity of States.
Student Carolina Pacheco defends her Master’s Degree Final Project on the challenges of the Andean Community regarding Designations of Origin
17 july 2020
The present research work arose as a consequence of the lack of correlation between the magnificent climatic, environmental and cultural conditions that the Andean territories have, in front of the scarce legislative, economic and administrative development, in the matter of industrial property for the agricultural and artisan sector.
Costa Rican student Mauricio Garita defends his Master’s Degree Final Project on the criminal liability of legal persons and compliance
6 july 2020
This research paper develops the relationship between two concepts that have given rise to much discussion in recent years: the criminal liability of legal persons and compliance. Both issues have acquired greater relevance in Costa Rica since the adoption on 10 June 2019 of Act No. 9699 on Liability of Legal Persons for Domestic Bribery, Transnational Bribery, and other Offences. This Act recognises the criminal liability of legal persons in the Costa Rican system. Previously the country had adopted the principle of "societas delinquere non potest".