Legal Sociology Reformulated: the Transformation of Law in Globalization and New Citizenship

This article seeks to demonstrate how Law inter-related with Economy, constitutes in modern societies one of the main instruments for the construction of citizen consensus or the construction of political hegemony in modern societies. If we consider this affirmation —as is argued here— the transformations suffered in recent decades by Law as a consequence of the new phase of capitalistic globalization, have played an important role in the constitution of a new subjectivity (“single thought”) in the population.

Equality, reasonableness and gender in the process of constitutionalization and internationalization of law

The themes of this paper are equality, reasonableness and gender rights in the dynamics of two sequential and convergent processes: the constitutionalization of judicial law, and the internationalization of constitutional law. The thesis of this paper is that in the face of non-compliance of the obligation to regulate, guarantee and protect gender rights, the best option has been to strengthen judicial law, which has enabled the development of rules for protection, the adoption of contemporary methods of interpretation and adjudication of the law, as well as the resolution of shortfalls in protection based on said processes of the constitutionalization and internationalization of local law.

Política social en Venezuela: Constitución, paradigmas y otros elementos para el debate

El objetivo de este escrito es proponer elementos conceptuales para el debate sobre la implementación de políticas sociales bajo la actual administración del presidente Hugo Chávez Frías en Venezuela. A través del uso de conceptos propios de la Ciencia Política y de la Sociología del Derecho, junto a la definición de los paradigmas como categoría analítica, se abordan las actuales políticas sociales como el resultado de una crisis institucional que necesariamente precisa la implementación de un nuevo paradigma, con las consecuencias que este proceso trae consigo para la institucionalidad del país. A partir de la forma en la que están concebidos los derechos sociales dentro de la Constitución de 1999, se exponen algunos de los dilemas que será necesario afrontar para el pleno establecimiento de una política social institucional.-----The aim of this paper is to propose conceptual elements for discussion about the implementation of social policies under the current administration of the President Hugo Chávez Frías in Venezuela. Through the use of concepts from political science and sociology of law, together with the definition of paradigms as an analytical category, it addresses the current social policies as the result of an institutional crisis, which necessarily requires the implementation of a new paradigm, with the consequences that this process entails for the country’s institutions. Since the reform which social rights are conceived in the 1999 Constitution sets out some of the dilemmas that will be needed to meet the full establishment of an institutional social policy.

El comportamiento peatonal en el espacio público de Bogotá: una aproximación sociológica

Una de las perspectivas más influyentes en la teoría de la desviación social es la Anomia.Este concepto ha sido trabajado por los más importantes clásicos de la sociología. Noción para abordar el problema de la ilegalidad y del irrespeto a las normas

Administrative authorization for the demolition of urban rental units pursuant to the law of 1964: a spanish example of problematic over-activity in the application of transitional laws

Transitional provisions are defined as the set of regulations that rule juridical relationships on the occasion of a legislative change. Out of this context of law succession, their indiscriminate application can lead to serious inconsistencies. The analysis of a Spanish private law example is offered to illustrate this fact. It concerns the administrative authorization for the demolition of rented buildings in the cities. A regulation repealed more than fifteen years ago and however widespread utilised on ancient constructions that, after recent urban development, have acquired great economic value; something that in the end explains the current importance of such provisions. What is happening in Spain: denaturalization of the original  figure due to a mixture of formalist interpretations and speculative market interests, is presented here to call the attention on the necessary limitation of transitional provisions’ effects.