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This article outlines a reading of the novel Sexto sueño (2007), by the Puerto Rican writer Marta Aponte Alsina. This paper's objective is to analyze the way in which a unique space of enunciation is articulated through two performativities: one legal and another literary. It involves a journey that takes us through places like the U.S. and Puerto Rico, in which bodies in transit are crossed, not only by legal and biopolitical practices, but also by various instances of experimentalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will address some of the problems arising from the legal identification of trans people and the exercise of their rights in Colombia. After a brief théorie explanation about the notion of trans as an identitary concept, the author will describe two different approaches concerning the role of the law regarding trans people's lives and experiences. The first one, rooted on queer theory, opposes any governmental intervention. The second one, based on the human rights discourse embraced by the LGBTI social movement, is willing to demand legal recognition. This paper concludes with the analysis of the difficulties in the assignment of sex on the identification documents and its effects on the exercise of citizenship, a debate where both approaches can be highlighted and were new challenges about the legal recognition of gender identity emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recently in force Bolivian Constitution of 2009 brings a change in the structure of the legal system. This paper analyzes such change through the formal relations among the legal sources and exposes the structure of the Unitarian and territorially decentralized State shaped by the Constitution. Besides a previous theoretical frame, the paper is divided into two main parts: the first one regards the Constitution as a legal source, and includes the legal consequences of its supremacy, the limits of the interpretation clause of the Constitution and the application of the stare decisis doctrine to the Constitutional Court precedents; the second part exposes the ordinary legal sources, its respective position in the structure of the legal system and the formal relations among them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper outlines and reviews the legal theory of JÜRGEN HABERMAS in the context of HABERMAS's general social theory, known as the theory of communicative action. First explained are the central concepts of system in lifeworld around which HABERMAS has developed his theory of modern society. Subsequently attention is paid to the dual role of law as an institution and a medium in HABERMAS's theory, after which the latest developments of HABERMAS's legal theory are reviewed. Finally, the paper discussed the influence and criticisms of HABERMAS's perspective on law in the secondary literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an approach to the way major law schools in Colombia seem to "react", according to what we understand by "globalization". To this effect, a critical view of the conventions around globalization will be addressed, from general or transnational legal theory, to then provide an overview of the curricula of the universities, as we have seen, may be representative of the national experience. The methodology we have used is a comparative analysis of the curricula of selected universities, we have examined what schools offer courses that can contain a global view of the law, and which have dominance in the "vocational" or "black box" subjects. The conclusion presented accounts for the preponderance with local subjects and are entrenched in the particular legal theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper approaches, from a legal, doctrinal and jurisprudential perspective, the concept and extent of the "Own Acts Doctrine" or "Venire Contra Factum Proprium Nulla Conceditur" as a general principle of what it implies as a right, according to different law systems and, in particular, according to Argentinean law. It settles and analyzes the requirements for its due application in each precise case and to prevent therefore any discretional uses, acting either as a shield against inappropriate pretensions or as a device to silence an exasperating judged pretension, which, paradoxically have been given to this valuable tool founded on good faith. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present paper will be presented to the reader how systemics and cybernetics are useful to structure a Systemic-Cybernetic Theory of Law (SCTL). By means of SCTL it will be possible to give an answer to diverse Philosophy of Law's questions, obtaining in this way a more complete vision of Law in comparison with others that have been offered. It will be exposed how the methodology and the systemic and cybernetic epistemologies enter into the juridical world, then there will be enumerated some characteristics of a possible SCTL and the answer that this new vision of Law offers for the juridical questions. The SCTL will constitute - we expect - the paradigm that the complexity of the topics and systems of (national, international, transnational, etc.) law requires to confront the crisis of its practical operation and of its scientific and philosophical researches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]