As organizações internacionais e a proteção dos direitos dos indígenas no âmbito do Direito Internacional: especial referência ao sistema interamericano de direitos humanos e ao direito brasileiro

The purpose of this article is to analyze the role played by key international organizations, particularly those of the UN and the OAS systems in protecting the rights of indigenous peoples under international law. The method adopted for the preparation of this work is descriptive and analytical, applying document analysis based on primary literature sources, especially those arising in organs of the UN and inter-American systems, mainly the jurisprudence from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This article starts with the assumption underlying that international organizations have a preponderant role in the need to safeguard and secure the universality and indivisibility of human rights of indigenous peoples. It is argued further that resolutions and conventions emanating from such organizations are absorbed by national legal order of States members, so that, once these standards internalized by States, they can acquire legal force, beyond moral, in order that their liability is accepted.

A responsabilidade do Estado por actos médicos: entre a "présomption de faute" francesa e a "objectivização" espanhola – breve resenha comparativa: uma convergência de regimes?

This article aims to reveal some essential legal aspects in common of French and Spanish medical liability systems, and to highlight the key points that separate them, and the current trend of both legal and administrative regimes is approaching. Indeed, these medical liability systems, French and Spanish, reveal a pincers movement, so it is curial to say that medical liability models are now more mixed, failing to make sense to strive for "pure systems" relating with "malpractice", applying this idea mutatis mutandis to other European countries, including Portugal

Os processos de constituição de sociedades por quotas face às alterações legislativas de 2011

Este pequeno artigo destina-se a ajudar os alunos de Direito Comercial do ISMAT a compreender, apreendendo, as recentes alterações legislativas ao Código das Sociedades Comercias no que ás sociedades por quotas diz respeito. Não pretendendo criar partido sobre tais alterações legislativas, nem tao pouco desenvolvendo todas as questões polémicas suscitadas com a leitura de tal diploma legal, pretendemos no entanto, abrir a mente dos alunos para possíveis alterações polémicas que, eventualmente, poderão vir a servir de base para tema de estudo em futuros mestrados.