Translation of the Decision of the International Court of Justice related to the Case concerning the dispute regarding navigational and related rights (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) Judgment

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Corrective Justice vs. Social Justice in the Aftermath of War

How do we justify the practice of corrective justice for losses suffered during armed conflicts? This article seeks to show the force and relevance of this question, and to argue that, in cases of massively destructive wars, social justice should gain priority over corrective justice. Starting from a liberal Rawlsian conception of the relationship between corrective and social justice, it is argued that, paradoxically, the more destructive a war is, the less normative force corrective rights have and the higher priority policies of social justice, which guarantee basic rights to all citizens, should have.

Une approche comparée des principes de proportionnalité et de subsidiarité dans la jurisprudence de la CJUE et du TJCA: la coordination-harmonisation des pluralismes juridiques régionaux à l’épreuve de l’internationalisation du droit de l’intégration

Face à la complexité de la comparaison entre les droits de l’Union européenne et de la Communauté andine caractérisés par une internationalisation pluraliste croissante, l’idée de coordination du pluriel appelle l’émergence de «macro-principes» pour penser l’universalité juridique, tant dans sa diversité que dans son unité, dans le cadre d’un système juridique supranational. Sur ce point, un constat liminaire s’impose: on ne peut aujourd’hui définir les frontières d’un droit communautaire internationalisé car elles sont floues et ouvertes. Il convient dès lors de prendre comme point de départ une étude du noyau de cette internationalisation qui passe par une comparaison de principes à vocation universelle («macro principes»). En ce sens, la proportionnalité et la subsidiarité peuvent faire l’objet d’une analyse à travers une étude comparée de la jurisprudence de la CJUE et du TJCA. Le premier principe peut ainsi être vu comme un moyen de coordination de droits communautaire tandis que le second se révèle être un outil de coordination de compétences communautaires. 

The Demobilization Process of Paramilitaries in Colombia: Between Politics and Justice

The phenomenon of paramilitarism in Colombia has received an ambiguous treatment, balancing between political and criminal issues; an oscillation that has been intimately linked to the evolution of the Colombian internal conflict. This contribution analyzes the recent negotiations held with paramilitary groups by the administration of Alvaro Uribe Vélez (2002-2010). After a brief account of the dependency path that has determined this historical episode, I propose an assessment of the use of judicial categories by the various actors of the negotiations. The main argument is that those categories –war criminal, political criminal, drug smuggler, etc.– do not depend on the intrinsic nature of an armed actor, but are socially constructed by a conflictive process of material and symbolic struggles. The capacity to categorize private violence, as legitimate or illegitimate, political or criminal, appears as one of the basic manifestations of the state’s action, as well as one of the main conflicts presiding at the rocess of state formation.

Les vrais principes de la lecture (1763) de Viard : aproximación a un primer planteamiento didáctico de la fonética francesa.

La autora presenta un estudio del libro de Nicolas-Antoine Viard, Les vrais Principes de la Lecture (1763). En él se destacan dos rasgos innovadores para su época: la reflexión pedagógica y la elaboración de un incipiente manual de Didáctica de la Fonética Francesa. Esta obra es un verdadero manual de pronunciación, ya que presenta tanto un contenido científico, como su aplicación o su reflexión didáctica. Viard elaboró un manual dirigido tanto alumno como al profesor y mostró la metodología que lo rige. Respecto del profesor, no sólo le presenta una organización jerarquizada y progresiva de los contenidos, sino que además le procura consignas de utilización. En cuanto a la metodología, que debe ser operativa (rapidez, facilidad y eficacia del aprendizaje) tales rasgos aparecen en esta misma triple vertiente. En, definitiva, la materia que trata y su forma de presentarla sitúan la obra como uno de los fundamentos básicos de la pirámide que a lo largo de la historia de la educación ha culminado en nuestra actual Didáctica de la Fonética Francesa..

Spanish version of Colquitt's Organizational Justice Scale

Resumen tomado de la publicaci??n

Aide personnalisée et cles de la culture scolaire: une interpellation de certains principes en didactique et formation

L’objectif est de montrer que, naissent parfois pour gérer les hétérogénéités scolaires des propositions de nature à remettre en cause divers schèmes sur lesquels reposent des représentations usuelles des savoirs et de leur transmission, de la structure de l’intervention didactique et de la formation des enseignants

The Court of Justice of the European Union as a fundamental rights tribunal: challenges for the effective delivery of fundamental rights in the area of freedom, security and justice. CEPS Paper in Liberty and Security in Europe No. 49, 29 August 2012

This paper reflects on the challenges facing the effective implementation of the new EU fundamental rights architecture that emerged from the Lisbon Treaty. Particular attention is paid to the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and its ability to function as a ‘fundamental rights tribunal’. The paper first analyses the praxis of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and its long-standing experience in overseeing the practical implementation of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Against this analysis, it then examines the readiness of the CJEU to live up to its consolidated and strengthened mandate on fundamental rights as one of the prime guarantors of the effective implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. We specifically review the role of ‘third-party interventions’ by non-governmental organisations, international and regional human rights actors as well as ‘interim relief measures’ when ensuring effective judicial protection of vulnerable individuals in cases of alleged violations of fundamental human rights. To flesh out our arguments, we rely on examples within the scope of the relatively new and complex domain of EU legislation, the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ), and its immigration, external border and asylum policies. In view of the fundamental rights-sensitive nature of these domains, which often encounter shifts of accountability and responsibility in their practical application, and the Lisbon Treaty’s expansion of the jurisdiction of the CJEU to interpret and review EU AFSJ legislation, this area can be seen as an excellent test case for the analyses at hand. The final section puts forth a set of policy suggestions that can assist the CJEU in the process of adjusting itself to the new fundamental rights context in a post-Lisbon Treaty setting.