Submitted by Aelson Maciera (aelsoncm@terra.com.br) on 2017-09-15T18:59:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DissCBF.pdf: 2229333 bytes, checksum: c3fb9f9325738a7afc9cfe8e25ef6cdd (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (bco.producao.intelectual@gmail.com) on 2018-01-29T19:06:24Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissCBF.pdf: 2229333 bytes, checksum: c3fb9f9325738a7afc9cfe8e25ef6cdd (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (bco.producao.intelectual@gmail.com) on 2018-01-29T19:06:33Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissCBF.pdf: 2229333 bytes, checksum: c3fb9f9325738a7afc9cfe8e25ef6cdd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-29T19:09:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissCBF.pdf: 2229333 bytes, checksum: c3fb9f9325738a7afc9cfe8e25ef6cdd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-25 / Não recebi financiamento / Poor childhood and adolescence has undergone a social stigmatization process taking a cultural imaginary status as “dangerous” and “violent”. Brazilian Government has developed controlling and contention tools as a response to the involvement of adolescents in infractions. The Statute of the Child and Adolescent (Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente – ECA) has made it possible to give these tools a punitive formal profile, in the juridical text, working on socioeducation, and blaming the adolescents, families, and society. Within this context, the present study aimed to know the expectations from juveniles regarding the process of quitting the internment, as well as learning how its routine goes on. The study was at two foundations where the appropriate socioeducational matters of privation of liberty were performed, in two different states of Brazil, being one in a medium-size city, and the other in a metropolis. Thus, during the first stage, 22 workshops meetings were carried out with 59 adolescents, aiming to know their expectations regarding quitting the foundation, and they were also invited to take part into the second stage. Nine semi-structured interviews were also done with technicians involved in their follow-up, focusing on strategies used to plan their reintroduction to the community. In the second stage, territorial follow-ups were performed, for four months, with four adolescents who were interned in socioeducational privacy of liberty in one of the cities mentioned before, aiming to understand how their return to the community was. By using the data obtained from the foundations, and together with the teenagers in their communities, we were able to understand that those adolescents were subordinate to criminal subjection social process, by creating the social expectation which bonds them to the identity of criminals, highly highlighting them to the possibility of communal bonding. It was concluded that besides the strong tagging of this process, and the exclusion from the daily life they face, since their internment the adolescents aim to build resistance and life spaces in their routines. / A infância e a adolescência pobres passaram por processo de estigmatização social, ocupando um lugar no imaginário cultural de “perigosos” e “violentos”. O Estado brasileiro criou instrumentos de controle e de contenção como resposta ao envolvimento de adolescentes em atos infracionais. Com o Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (ECA), esses instrumentos deixaram de ter caráter formal punitivo e passaram a caracterizar-se, no texto jurídico, pela socioeducação e responsabilização dos adolescentes, das famílias e da sociedade. Nesse contexto, o presente estudo propôs conhecer as expectativas dos jovens acerca do processo de saída da internação, bem como apreender como se dá seu cotidiano. O estudo ocorreu em duas fundações para o cumprimento de medida socioeducativa de privação de liberdade em dois estados diferentes da federação, no Brasil, sendo uma de uma cidade de porte médio e outra numa metrópole. Para tanto, na primeira etapa, foram realizados 22 encontros de oficinas com a participação de 59 adolescentes, buscando conhecer suas expectativas acerca da saída da fundação, tendo sido também convidados a participar da segunda etapa. Realizaram-se, também, nove entrevistas semiestruturadas com os técnicos envolvidos em seu acompanhamento acerca das estratégias para a reconstrução do cotidiano do jovem na comunidade. Na segunda etapa foram realizados acompanhamentos territoriais, por quatro meses, com quatro adolescentes que cumpriram medida socioeducativa de privação de liberdade em um dos municípios estudados, com o intuito de compreender como se deu o retorno à sua comunidade. Por meio dos dados obtidos nas fundações e junto aos jovens em suas comunidades, pudemos compreender que aqueles jovens estão subordinados ao processo social de sujeição criminal mediante a criação da expectativa social que os vincula à identidade de criminosos, o que marca fortemente suas possibilidades de vinculação comunitária. Conclui-se que, apesar da forte marcação desse processo e as exclusões na vida cotidiana que enfrentam, desde antes da internação, os adolescentes buscam construir espaços de resistência e vida em seus cotidianos.

Au sein du marché intérieur, nous assistons à une mobilité croissante des travailleurs, alors que la compétence harmonisatrice de l’Union européenne est de nature minimale et que l’intégration européenne en droit du travail reste encore inachevée. Dans un contexte de diversité des réglementations du travail au sein de cet espace, il revient un rôle important aux règles de conflit de lois pour assurer que les personnes bénéficiaires des libertés de circulation ne voient pas leur mobilité affectée. Plus précisément, le droit international privé a pour fonction de garantir le principe de protection du travailleur inscrit dans les libertés de circulation. Pour parvenir à ce constat, il s’agit de s’interroger sur les influences possibles du droit du marché intérieur sur les règles de conflit de lois. L’évolution décrite est celle du droit international privé européen. Héritées des systèmes de droit international privé des Etats membres, les règles de conflit de lois européennes doivent désormais s’inscrire dans le contexte juridique de l’Union européenne dont elles empruntent les principes. Nous nous concentrons essentiellement sur le principe de protection du travailleur lequel est ancré dans le concept du marché intérieur. En dessinant ses contours, nous nous interrogeons sur les manières dont ce principe peut influencer les règles de conflit de lois. Le point de départ consiste en l’affirmation d’une compétence de l’Union européenne pour adopter des règles de droit international privé. Partant de l’analyse des difficultés d’adaptation des règles de conflit de lois au contexte européen, notre démarche vise à démontrer les faiblesses des règles de conflit de lois dans un contexte de diversité des réglementations des Etats membres en droit du travail. Face aux insuffisances des règles de conflit de lois classiques, des mécanismes unilatéraux du conflit de lois se développent. Sous la forme des lois de police, ces derniers permettent aux Etats membres de véhiculer des impérativités qui expriment une solution territorialiste du conflit de lois. Ils se caractérisent ainsi par la faveur qu'ils accordent à l’application de la loi du for. Dans ce contexte, le traitement conflictuel du détachement des travailleurs sert d’illustration.En accentuant sur la libre circulation des travailleurs, il convient de confronter les solutions du conflit de lois à la mise en place progressive d’un marché européen de l’emploi. Une règle de conflit de lois qui tiendrait compte des intérêts de l’intégration européenne ne livrerait-elle la solution la plus adéquate du conflit de lois ? Nous nous inspirons des références à la protection du travailleur dans le concept du marché intérieur pour en tirer des leçons pour une règle de conflit de lois régulatrice et protectrice dans un contexte d’européanisation. / Mobility of workers within the internal market of the European Union is growing constantly, whereas European integration in social matters remains incomplete. The absence of an exhaustively harmonised European Social Law is not only related to the minimum character of harmonisation but also to the lack of an overall competence in social matters. Due to diversity between labour legislations of the Member States, conflict of laws needs to be mobilized in order to guarantee effective freedom of movement. More precisely, Private International Law has the function of promoting the worker protection principle enshrined in free movement law. Our purpose is to analyse possible impacts of the law of the internal market on Conflict of Laws. The subject of the present study is on European Conflict of Laws. Inspired by national conflict of law mechanisms, European conflict of law rules should nowadays fit into the context of European Union Law and therefore adopt its principles. Among those, the worker protection principle – as part of the concept of the internal market – is of high interest. While discovering the content of this principle, we underline different manners in which it can influence conflict of law rules. Our starting point consists in admitting the competence of the European Union for Private International Law matters. While demonstrating failures of the actual European conflict of law rules regarding their adaptability to legislative diversity, we discover that Member States tend to make increasingly use of unilateral mechanisms: Imperativeness is intended to assure Member States’ regulatory interests by designating the law of the forum state. For the purpose of this demonstration, we suggest to analyse the example of posted workers, among others. Territoriality has been observed in Conflict of Laws. This is problematic from the perspective of integration of the internal market, i.e. in our context, the European labour market. Therefore, we suggest that conflict of law rules should be adapted to the requirements of European regulatory interests. Lessons can be drawn from the concept of the internal market which leads us to examine a protective conflict of law rule aiming at integrating the worker into the labour market.

With regard to the gradual economic globalisation markets of States become more and more interconnected, especially so in the European Union which aims to create a single internal market without internal borders and barriers to the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital. Naturally, it influences behaviour of economic participants on the market. With increase of competition it is necessary to be more innovative, active and to search for new opportunities for expansion not only in one's own State but also abroad which entails entering into relations with foreign entities. In the course of time it might be useful or even necessary to relocate the place of business. Such need might not and, indeed, does not concern only natural person but also legal entities such as companies. However, the status of companies in cross-border relations has some specific features in comparison to the status of natural persons. A company is only an artificial product of law, a mere legal fiction, and therefore, its existence is much more closely linked with a specific legal order. A company has legal personality only insofar as some legal order acknowledges it. Different approaches how to link a company to a certain State have been evolved in different States - either the connecting factor is the statutory...

La lourdeur de la procédure française d'adoption, ainsi que la baisse du nombre d'enfants adoptables ne permettent pas de répondre à la demande d'enfant des candidats à l'adoption. Ces derniers se rendent alors à l'étranger chercher ce qu'ils ne trouvent pas en France. Or, le recours aux filiations électives étrangères (adoption internationale ou maternité pour autrui) conduit les candidats à l'adoption ou les couples intentionnels français à conclure de nombreux contrats. On assiste alors à une véritable contractualisation des filiations électives, qui se développe en France, contre toute attente, le droit tentant de maintenir l'état et la capacité des personnes en dehors de la sphère contractuelle. L' étude de l'autonomie de la volonté dans les filiations électives met ainsi en parallèle, et parfois en opposition, plusieurs intérêts: celui des parents électifs ou biologiques, celui de l'enfant, mais aussi celui de l 'Etat qui entend préserver certains principes comme l'indisponibilité du corps humain ou l'état des personnes. La conciliation de ces différents intérêts doit donc passer par la mise en place d'un cadre juridique. Toutefois, dans un contexte de mondialisation (forum et law shopping, etc.), le problème de la réglementation de l'expression de la volonté dans les filiations électives entraine d'autres difficultés telles que la qualification juridique des accords conclus dans le cadre de l'adoption ou dans le cadre d'un recours aux mères porteuses, le refus de reconnaissance de la filiation établie à l'étranger ainsi que le statut de l'enfant. / A cumbersome process combined with fewer adoptable children impedes French demands for adoption which results in the potential parents seeking solutions abroad. Resorting to optional filiation through international adoption or surrogacy leads prospective French parents or actual candidates, to enter multiple contracts. This contractualization of optional filiations has surprisingly swept across France, clashing against principles of French law calling for a protection of the personal status and capacity by keeping them out of contracts. This study on freedom of will within the process of optional filiation highlights the tension between the prospective and also the biological parents', and the child's interests. This study also puts in perspective those interests with that of the State which intends to guard principles such as inalienability of the human body. In order to make sure every interest is taken into account, such a process needs to be regulated, and a legal framework needs to be implemented. However, in a world where globalization is the trend (forum shopping, law shopping) finding common ground to set rules and regulations regarding the optional filiation process is easier said than done and raises many difficulties concerning the adopted childÕs status and the refusal to recognize filiation through foreign adoption. Such a process also raises questions: What legal qualification should apply to agreements within the adoption process or in case of surrogacy contracts?

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:56:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vanessa Cristina da Silva.pdf: 2188037 bytes, checksum: 1849759e42d112253d3ba0fa6284a734 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present study intended to grasp the senses and meanings that an art educator elaborated to his professional activity, which is the teaching of Art and Culture to adolescents in conflict with law and isolated from society. The research had a qualitative nature and was based on theoretical and methodological assumptions of the socio-historical Psychology. The subject was an art educator who has been teaching street dancing for more than 15 years, despite de fact that he didn t attend higher education. The categories of analysis selected from the theoretical framework were those of senses and meanings, following the methodological approach suggested by Aguiar and Ozella (2006): the construction and analysis of nuclei of meanings. The interpretative and constructive analytical effort showed that the senses and meanings attributed by the participant to his teaching activities were impregnated by his subjectivity, a personal construction based on his individual experience in everyday life. The denial of the role of theory and the excessive emphasis on practice led the subject to immediate, automatic or unthinking actions. It was inferred that the activities of art and culture have an important place in the life of youngsters deprived of freedom, but if such activities are to have an educational nature, teacher training must promote reflection and theorization. In fact, teachers training requires both intellectual and empirical activities, enabling praxis, i. e., theory leading practice and practice placing new questions in the theory. It is only then that is possible to build a teaching process both critical and reflexive, reducing the impact of individual experiences and imposing certain rationality. Teacher's training is the primary way to create educators who act critically, analyzing their doings, their students and their classrooms away from common sense, pragmatism and idiosyncratic meanings formulated exclusively in accordance to their private experience / O presente estudo, realizado com base em uma entrevista, objetiva apreender os sentidos e os significados que um arte-educador constitui a sua atividade profissional. O participante da pesquisa tem 15 anos de experiência, embora não possua formação universitária, e ministra aulas de Arte e Cultura, mais especificamente de dança de rua, a adolescentes que cumprem medida socioeducativa na Fundação CASA. O caráter da pesquisa é qualitativo e fundamenta-se nos pressupostos teórico metodológicos da Psicologia Sócio-Histórica. Dentre as categorias de análise oferecidas pelo referencial adotado, a fundamental para este trabalho é a de sentido. Opta-se ainda pela proposta metodológica de Aguiar e Ozella (2006), que sugerem a construção e a análise de núcleos de significação. O esforço analítico interpretativo e construtivo evidencia que os sentidos constituídos pelo sujeito a sua atividade docente estão impregnados por sua subjetividade, construída com base em vivências particulares e na experiência prática e cotidiana. A negação da relação entre teoria e prática leva o sujeito a uma ação imediatista, automática, irreflexiva. Infere-se que, embora a atividade de Arte e Cultura ocupe um lugar importante no cotidiano de jovens que cumprem medida socioeducativa, reivindicar para ela um caráter pedagógico exigiria uma formação pedagógica que permita a reflexão e a teorização. A formação pedagógica requer atividades teóricas e práticas que alcancem a práxis: a teoria orientando a prática e a prática colocando novas questões à teoria. Só assim é possível construir um agir crítico-reflexivo, que atenue as vivências particulares e imponha a objetividade desejada ao exercício da profissão. A formação pedagógica é o principal caminho para se formar educadores que analisem criticamente seu fazer e sua sala de aula, fugindo do pragmatismo do senso comum ou dos sentidos idiossincráticos formulados com base em suas vivências e experiências particulares

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:57:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Valdenice Sousa da Cruz.pdf: 771771 bytes, checksum: e5a4b0741f4ffc77515a660e75f5b9ba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-06-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Considering the alarming social situation in which many adolescents have been involved, Brazilian society has been concerned with a large range of questions: since lowering the age to be held responsible for penal acts, to how to make the Statute of the Child and the Adolescent an effective tool to be used by the authorities, till the extinction of total institutions for the young population. This is the case of CASA Foundation, local where the present study was conducted. Its aim was to identify and to discuss the sense and significant attributed by teachers working at the CASA Foundation to their students and to their own pedagogical practice. The theory that oriented the research was the Social-historical approach in Psychology, and the method can be described as having a qualitative nature. The subjects were two teachers, who answered to questionnaire to precise their social, economical and cultural level and to a semi-structured interview about the focus of the study, besides telling the research how was their life story. The results pointed out the necessity and the importance of having teachers able to construct new meanings for the social-educative work, contributing to demystify the common sense idea in which they appear as a person not motivated for the professional role, not worried about the learning of their pupils, caring less for their future. The teachers that participated in this investigation presented a distinct profile: they considered themselves as profoundly involved with their job, highly motivated to do it well, and concerned with the offering of a good schooling for the adolescents in conflict with the law. They also pointed out the necessity of following these youngsters after their period of confinement, in order to promote the continuity of their education, to avoid new infracional acts and to diminish as much as possible the number of imprisonments / Diante do quadro social alarmante, envolvendo um número elevado de jovens e adolescentes, a sociedade tem sido levada a enfrentar um amplo quadro de questões que vão desde a diminuição da maioridade penal e a real aplicação do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente pelo Estado, até a extinção das instituições totais, como é o caso da Fundação Casa. Esse estudo tem por objetivo identificar e discutir os sentidos e significados atribuídos por professores, que lecionam em centros que abrigam jovens infratores, a seus alunos e a sua prática. O referencial teórico metodológico adotado foi o da Psicologia Sócio-Histórica e método pode ser considerado com parte da abordagem qualitativa de pesquisa. Participaram dessa investigação dois professores da Fundação Casa, que responderam a um questionário de nível sócio-econômico e cultural e a uma entrevista semi-estruturada sobre o objeto de estudo, além de prestarem um relato acerca de sua vida. Os resultados mostram a necessidade e a importância de se contar com professores que são capazes de criar novos sentidos para o trabalho sócio-educativo, contribuindo para desmistificar a idéia de senso comum, na qual o docente aparece sempre como desmotivado para o exercício profissional, relaxado em relação à aprendizagem de seus alunos e pouco se importando com seu futuro. Os professores entrevistados mostraram um perfil totalmente distinto: engajados, motivados e preocupados com a escolaridade dos jovens em conflito com a lei, apontam ser necessário um real acompanhamento do adolescente após sua internação, para que possam dar continuidade ao trabalho realizado, evitar a reincidência em problemas com a lei e, diminuir tanto quanto possível, o número de internações

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:46:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CleaNRCN.pdf: 827607 bytes, checksum: 4d9b39b35034e4ec81917ba09894c410 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-08-31 / This work deals with the problematic of the determinations that contribute to become the adolescents involved with law. Thus, in this research, the social exclusion is apprehended as one of the most important determining to understand this problematic, once we defend that it is part of the trajectory of this adolescent's life since its birth as a punishment that starts before they becoming envolved in act's that break the law. It is still questioned the discussion of the reduction of the penal age, viewed aa a proposal that will contribute to perpetuate the repression. The objectives of the research were: analyze the problematic of adolescents in conflict with law, where social exclusion is seen here as a main category. The research also aims to understand the situation towards social exclusion and that this public is undertaken in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, more specifically in Natal. This is dane through analysis of the profile of adolescents that are submitted to the treatment at Centro Integrate de Atendimento ao Adolescente Acusado de Ato Infracional - CIAD in 2005. This is dane on arder to identify of the State's and society's actions towards this issue, how it has prevailed in analyzing if there is punishing or social protection. The research also contributed with discussion towards the non penal reduction of for underage minors. The approach realized if of qualiquantitative nature. The research was realized with 190 male adolescent subjects, age ranging from 12 to 21 that were interns at CIAD in the year of 2005. The research shows that their fundamental rights (education, health, amongst others) are disrespected on a daily basis by the State. The State prioritizes economic issues, making social inequality more profound. The main argument is that this problematic has its main oring in the social exclusion and it is imposed to the adolescents as a punishment before thes have been involved with the law going on top of the social protection. When the adolescent goes from being the victim to executioner, the Statute of Children and Adolescents is questioned by many sectors that defend the reduction of penal minority as a solution to reduce the country's violence. Thus, it was aimed here to discuss arguments that point to non exclusion, discrimination and repression. It is proposed that the State should assume children and adolescents as a priority, implementing what the statute establishes as well as assures related to the fruition of denied rights as a way to prevent their future involvement with violence / O presente trabalho tem como objeto de aten??o a problem?tica das determina??es que contribuem para que os adolescentes entrem conflito com a lei. Neste estudo, a exclus?o social ? apreendida como um dos determinantes mais importantes para entender esta problem?tica uma vez que defendemos que esta faz parte da trajet?ria de vida deste adolescente desde o seu nascimento funcionando como uma puni??o que antecede o seu envolvimento em atos infracionais. Questiona-se ainda a discuss?o da redu??o da maioridade penal vista como uma proposta que contribuir? para a perpetua??o da repress?o. Os objetivos neste trabalho se expressam em: Analisar a problem?tica do adolescente em conflito com a lei, tendo a exclus?o social como um dos principais determinantes; Elucidar a situa??o de exclus?o social a que o adolescente em conflito com a lei est? submetido no Rio Grande do Norte, especificamente em Natal, atrav?s do perfil do adolescente atendido no Centro Integrado de Atendimento ao Adolescente Acusado de Ato Infracional -CIAD no ano de 2005; Identificar se na a??o do Estado e da sociedade diante dessa problem?tica tem prevalecido a puni??o ou a prote??o social; Contribuir com a discuss?o para a n?o redu??o da maioridade penal. Utilizando-se a abordagem qualiquantitativa, a pesquisa realizou-se tendo como sujeitos 190 adolescentes do sexo masculino com idade entre 12 e 21 anos que se encontraram internados, provisoriamente, no CIAD no ano de 2005. Desvenda-se neste trabalho que seus direitos fundamentais (educa??o, sa?de, entre outros) s?o diariamente desrespeitados por um Estado que d? prioridade ao econ?mico, aprofundando assim, cada vez mais as desigualdades sociais. Defende-se que essa problem?tica tem sua raiz principalmente na exclus?o social e ? imposta ao adolescente como uma puni??o que se antecipa ao seu envolvimento com a Lei e se sobrep?e ? prote??o social. Quando este adolescente passa de v?tima a algoz, o Estatuto da Crian?a e do Adolescente ? questionado por diversos setores da sociedade que passam a defender a redu??o da maioridade penal como a solu??o para reduzir a viol?ncia no pa?s. Nesse sentido, busca-se discutir os argumentos que apontem para a n?o exclus?o, discrimina??o e repress?o. Prop?e-se que o Estado deve assumir a crian?a e o adolescente como prioridade, implementando o que estabelece o ECA assegurando, dessa forma, o usufruto de direitos at? ent?o negados a eles como forma de impedir que se envolvam com a viol?ncia, futuramente

Le concept de "fluidité du droit"' interroge les variations de l'application du droit aux Emirats arabes unis (E.A.U.). L'intention est de protéger les intérêts des citoyens émiriens contre les non-citoyens tout en imposant le droit des décideurs dans un cadre juridique arabo-musulman. Le contexte (acteurs et espèces) détermine l'adaptation du droit. Les E.A. U. ont signé des traités internationaux qui les obligent à mettre le droit local en conformité. Or, les réserves stipulées et le manque de clarté retardent ce processus. Localement, l'application du droit dépend de la variété des sources, notamment du droit islamique et de ses différentes écoles, d'une procédure législative opaque et d'un système judiciaire complexe (trois types de tribunaux, statut personnel discriminant fondé sur la notion de citoyenneté). Les limites fluctuantes entre les sphères publiques et privées font enfin planer une incertitude dans des domaines relevant de l'intime ou de la diffamation par exemple. Les autorités émiriennes exercent un contrôle sur le droit en s'appuyant sur une organisation tribale et un système de permis à tous les étages de la société émirienne. La liberté d'expression à cet égard a subi les effets du Printemps arabe de 2011. Le système de délivrance de permis s'en est trouvé renforcé pour assurer la stabilité du régime. Le droit à l'éducation, très interprétatif, montre comment les permis d'exercice interprètent différemment ce droit. Le droit du travail est aussi encadré par des permis. Les autorités émiriennes sous-traitent aux citoyens émiriens le contrôle des travailleurs étrangers. Dans le contexte d'une croissance économique exceptionnelle, des observateurs extérieurs ont interrogé les effets de cette croissance sur les droits de l'homme et les médias. Le gouvernement fédéral a très vite appris à utiliser son système pour se protéger des droits« universels». Des organisations écrans ont été créées pour répondre aux critiques exprimées en insistant sur le point de vue émirien. L'aide étrangère permet en outre d'acquérir un statut privilégier dans le domaine humanitaire. L'intention est de rendre la critique de la fluidité du droit impossible ou injuste. Vu de l'extérieur, bien des décisions émiriennes peuvent être interprétées comme arbitraires. Or, la fluidité du droit est un principe interne qui a sa logique, celle de préserver l'Etat et de le rendre résilient en cas de contestation. / The notion of "fluidity of law" illuminates how the law in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) may change influencing what constitute a right serving the purpose of protecting national interest, continuing the rule of the rulers and protecting the interests of the citizens versus non-citizens in an Arab-Muslim setting. Equally important, this contextual law is just according to the idea of justice in Islamic law emphasizing the importance of knowing the local context before making moral judgements. On the international level, the UAE government has consented to certain core human rights treaties creating legal obligations domestically. But, the state's reservations to consented treaties and lack of clarity about the status of treaties in local law and courts creates uncertainty about implementation of treaty obligations. On the local level, a diversity of legal sources with Islamic law as primary source of law with its four interpretations in Sunni Islam, a non-transparent legislative and court system, three parallel court systems and persona! status law distinguishing citizens from non-citizens make it challenging to predict what the law may be. Furthermore, the notions of private and public in law are in constant flux in the jurisdiction indicating how what appears to be private might be public in intimate relations and how to be private in public domains through defamation legislation. Finally, this work shows how the authorities have established a system of control of rights based on traditional tribal organizations through a license system in law of rights in several spheres of society. This system of license creates hierarchy of rights, control of exercise of rights and at times outsources monitoring of other unacceptable behaviour. The sphere of expressions is examined in detail in this work as the regional upheavals in 2011 resulted in more legislation beyond licensing to protect the stability of the rulers. However, what the law is on the ground is also affected by local interpretations of rights and this will be illustrated through the right to education. Additionally, the license system in employment of non-citizens is based on a fusion between the interests of the authorities and citizens creating a system where citizens may willingly monitor non-citizens on behalf of the state. Against the backdrop of growing economic success in the UAE, outsiders were questioning the price of the boom resulting in attention from human rights activists and media. But, the government quickly learnt how to use its license system to protect itself by establishing a front organization to retaliate on its behalf. Other organizations with links to the authorities would appear. On the back of growing influence of the state, the authorities changed its way of responding to the view of outsiders on its law and rights. Foreign aid provided the state with status and influence as a humanitarian state making it harder to question the fluidity of law in the jurisdiction. While the unpredictable nature of the law in the UAE might seem chaotic from the outside and on the ground, I argue that the fluidity of law legitimises the state and makes it resilient.

The thesis investigates the extent to which cross-border taking of evidence in civil and com-mercial matters in relation to Switzerland, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Nigeria, and Uganda is allowed. Such evidence-taking is not only governed by the domestic law of the state seeking evidence abroad and that of the state where the relevant means of proof are located, but also by public international law, and more specifically by the concept of sovereignty. The ad-missibility of the cross-border taking of evidence under public international law depends on whether or not evidence-gathering in civil litigation is regarded as a judicial act, which violates sovereignty when performed on foreign territory, or as a purely private act. In the first case, the evidentiary material has to be obtained through channels of international judicial assistance. Such assistance can either be rendered based on the basis of an international treaty, or through courtoisie internationale. No international judicial assistance is necessary in cases of a so-called “transfer of foreign evidence”, provided no compulsion is applied which infringes the sovereignty of the foreign state. The thesis analyses the taking of evidence abroad based on the Hague Evidence Convention, and the Hague Procedure Convention. It further expounds how evidence located in Switzer-land, Botswana, Namibia, Nigeria, and Uganda can be obtained for the benefit of civil proceed-ings pending abroad in the absence of any relevant international treaty. The thesis also exam-ines under what conditions a litigant in civil proceedings in the aforementioned countries may request evidence to be taken on foreign soil. The position of cross-border taking of evidence in civil and commercial matters in the said countries is assessed, and suggestions are made on how such status quo may be improved. The thesis makes an attempt to establish the basic prin-ciples for a convention on evidence-taking in civil and commercial matters between South Af-rica, Botswana, Namibia, Nigeria, and Uganda. The development of such principles, however, is only possible once the similarities and differences in the procedure for the taking of evidence and the means of proof in the relevant laws of the aforesaid countries have been identified. / Public, Constitutional, & International / LL.D.

This thesis considers the extent to which the International Criminal Court's Office of the Prosecutor ('OTP') has been successful in realising its self-defined mandate of ending impunity in Kenya. In particular, it focuses on the OTP's attempts to encourage domestic investigations and prosecutions as part of its strategy of positive complementarity. This strategy has been hailed as being the best and perhaps the only way that the OTP may use its finite resources to make a significant contribution to ending impunity. Despite this, no empirical study has been published that evaluates the effectiveness of this strategy and the impact that it has on ending impunity in the targeted situation country. This thesis seeks to address this gap in the literature by conducting a case study on the OTP's implementation of its strategy of positive complementarity in Kenya following that country's post-election violence in 2007/08. In doing so, I also hope to make a modest contribution to existing debates over the effectiveness of the ICC as an institution as well as international criminal justice and transitional justice more generally.