Una aproximación crítica al gobierno de Álvaro Uribe Vélez constituye unaporte para leer las dimensiones de la crisis nacional en el entramado de lapolítica y la economía. Resaltando los contextos internacionales másdeterminantes, al igual que los propósitos más significativos de la...

Following the eruption of the greatest crisis in the new millennium, the crisis has spread worldwide at a record pace including every economy, region and has left all of them ruined. The crisis, thanks to the global money markets, has reached the whole world, each of its sectors and players. One...

Hans-Bernd Schäfer, Institut für Recht und Ökonomik, Universität Hamburg, und Bucerius Law School, Hochschule für Rechtswissenschaft, Hamburg, plädiert in seinem Kommentar für ein internationales Insolvenzrecht. In Abwesenheit eines solchen Rechtsrahmens stellt er vier Optionen vor, die...

In seinem Kommentar befasst sich Manfred Borchert, Universität Münster, mit der Auswirkung der schlechten Bewertung von griechischen Staatsanleihen auf die Bilanzen der europäischen Banken.

The essay presents and explains a highly stylized story of the reactions of the structure of a university to a constitutional reform – in the university law – that radically changed the power structure from a bottom-up representative system to a top-down hierarchical system practically...

Can a constitution born in dictatorship serve democracy, or is it inevitably tainted by the circumstances of its birth? This question is central in Chilean politics today, but Chile is not alone. Roughly 20% of constitutions in force today were drafted during undemocratic periods. Chile’s...

Taking into consideration the way in which the state powers work and interfere in Romania nowadays, we asked themselves whether the state of law is jeopardized. In order to provide an answer to this matter, the aim of our scientific approach is to analyse several problems that our young Romanian...

This paper provides a tightly written overview and modest extension of the constitutional exchange and evolution model developed in Perfecting Parliament and uses that approach to analyze the division of authority that one would expect to see in contemporary constitutional governments. The...