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Number ESPAÇO JURÍDICO JOURNAL OF LAW [EJJL] Edição Espec Year 2012

10 articles in this issue 

Richard A. Wilson

Abstract: The view advanced in this article is that over the past few decades, the efforts of Sub-Saharan Africa elites to promote human rights discourse and establish liberal institutions of the nation-state have constrained the space for justifiable law... see more

Pags. 11 - 26  

Angel Oquendo, University of Connecticut-School of Law, Estados Unidos

Abstract: This article maintains that a campaign to exterminate a language cannot but aim at annihilating a community itself. The present piece of fiction might enable the reader effectively to re-imagine discriminatory oppression in the United States.&nb... see more

Pags. 117 - 140  

Bernice Sam, National Programme Coordinator of Wildaf in Ghana, Africa

Abstract: The Supreme Court of the Republic of Ghana has given value to gender roles of women (and men) in the home. For too long many courts had relied on the need to establish substantial contribution by spouses to joint property which many women could ... see more

Pags. 141 - 148  

Richard S. Kay, University of Connecticut-School of Law, Estados Unidos

Abstract: Democracy require protection of certain fundamental rights, but can we expect courts to follow rules? There seems little escape from the proposition that substantive constitutional review by an unelected judiciary is a presumptive abridgement of... see more

Pags. 151 - 167  

Mathilde Cohen, Columbia Law School-School of Law, Estados Unidos

Abstract: This Article examines the thesis according to which the practice of giving reasons for decisions is a central element of liberal democracies. In this view, public institutions’ practice—and sometimes duty—to give reasons is required so that each... see more

Pags. 27 - 44  

Robin D. Barnes, University of Connecticut-School of Law, Estados Unidos

Abstract: This article question the underlying assumptions and, therefore, potential effectiveness of Anthony Alfieri's recent essay, "Defending Racial Violence. Alfieri's proposal, in the form of an enforceable rule, would likely wind up on a collision c... see more

Pags. 45 - 58  

Lisa J. Laplante, University of Connecticut-School of Law, Estados Unidos

Abstract: This Article responds to an apparent gap in the scholarly literature which fails to merge the fields of human rights law and international criminal law—a step that would resolve the current debate as to whether any amnesty in transitional justic... see more

Pags. 59 - 116