The depersonalization of the courts that the civil law tradition encourages makes it less likely that judges in those types of jurisdictions will become towering judges or, at least, it will make their influential ...

This article examines the discussion on the prescription of civil remedial actions in cases of crimes against humanity, and especially, Chilean judges’ interpretation on this statute, applying the 1949 Geneva Conventions. ...

During the last decades, civil dogmatic has dealt more intensely with the concept of a person. The constitutionalisation of civil law and the emergence of bioethical problems have triggered an increasing attention to it. ...