Which political entities have personality in international law? ‘States’ is an inadequate answer. Historically, the term has not always designated a stable, legally meaningful category of entities, nor have states been the sole political entities with rights and duties. Moreover – contrary to traditional views – there is more than one means of acquiring statehood, with the consequence that not all states are alike in legal terms. This thesis offers an explanation of the personality of states and other political entities that takes this complexity into account. The first chapter of the thesis presents a definition of the personality of political entities. The definition draws on W N Hohfeld’s approach to rights and duties and requires a person to have at least one right or duty in his sense. This emphasises that personality is primarily about conduct: international law regulates conduct by persons towards other persons. Chapter 2 investigates the personality of political entities before the twentieth century, focusing on the question of what differences existed between Western states and the empires, chiefdoms, and other political entities found elsewhere in the world. This question was significant for the emergence of a stable concept of statehood. Chapter 3 examines the general rules about statehood. It rejects both the view that statehood always depends on criteria of effectiveness and the view that statehood always depends on recognition. The most persuasive view is that statehood can be acquired either by effectiveness or by recognition (with some qualifications: notably, recognition may create statehood relative only to some other states). This explains, among other things, how states can survive extended periods of anarchy. Chapter 4 deals with exceptions to the general rules, showing that recognition usually cannot be used to breach an existing state’s territorial integrity and that the role of peremptory norms must be reassessed in light of the existence of two alternative means of acquiring statehood. The final chapter concerns the possibility that political entities may have personality short of statehood.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-06-23T13:23:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FranceleMariscoDireito.pdf: 931023 bytes, checksum: 872d764f1267812fa119026d56782011 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-06-23T13:23:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FranceleMariscoDireito.pdf: 931023 bytes, checksum: 872d764f1267812fa119026d56782011 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-22 / Nenhuma / O presente estudo foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de demonstrar a importância da proteção jurídica da imagem do atleta profissional de futebol frente aos avanços tecnológicos que acarretam situações de riscos à personalidade humana, bem como à investigação da possibilidade relativa de disponibilidade desse direito de personalidade. O problema é que a disponibilidade desse direito, através do contrato de licença de uso de imagem, volta-se geralmente apenas para o aspecto econômico da pessoa em si, não para a valorização da pessoa humana. Dessa forma, impõem a pesquisa e a reflexão sobre o direito à imagem, o qual é considerado um direito de personalidade, com vistas à sua integral proteção. A imagem do jogador de futebol, como sendo um excelente apelo à publicidade, ganhou tamanha importância que a sua imagem chega a se relacionar com o próprio contrato de trabalho, sendo muitas vezes confundido com este. Assim, torna-se necessário delinear os contornos essenciais do direito à imagem, ainda mais por ser um direito típico, reconhecido e protegido pela legislação, não se confundindo com outros direitos da personalidade, em face da sua autonomia. Como o direito à imagem é um direito de personalidade, buscou-se, após uma análise dos direitos de personalidade, obter uma nova dimensão desse direito, centrado na pessoa humana e não no patrimônio, a qual compreenderá as soluções para as lesões ao direito à imagem. E, através do fenômeno da repersonalização do direito privado, deve-se ter o princípio da dignidade da pessoa humana como valor guia e princípio supremo da ordem jurídica. Portanto, pretende-se que o direito à imagem do atleta profissional de futebol, venha a ser concretamente protegido pela cláusula geral de tutela e promoção da pessoa humana, com um deslocamento conceitual rumo à pessoa concreta do atleta, principalmente quando se fala na disponibilidade relativa do exercício do direito à imagem tão claramente na imagem dos atletas de futebol. / The thesis is developed in order to demonstrate the importance of legal protection of the image of professional football player because of technological advances, which carry to situations of risk to human personality, as well as this work researches the possible availability of this right of personality. The problem is that the availability of that right, through the license agreement for the use of the image, usually is focused only about the economic aspect of the person itself, not valuing the human being. Therefore, it is required a research and a study about the right of the image, which is understood as a right of personality, in regard of its full protection. The image of a football player, as being a good call for advertising, has gained such importance that his image is related to his own employment contract, and not rarely it is mixed up with this. Thus, it is necessary to point out the essential characteristics on the right of the image, especially because this is distinctive right, recognized and protected by law, not being confused with other rights of personality, for its autonomy. As the right of the image a right of personality, the present work has sought, after an analysis of the rights of personality, a new aspect of this right, focusing on the human being and not on the wealth, that includes solutions for the injuries that may happen in the right of the image. And, through the phenomenon of the repersonalization of the private law, one must have the principle of human dignity as a guide value and supreme principle of the law. Consequently, it is intended that the right of the image of the professional football player will become specifically protected by the general principle of the protection and the promotion of the human being, with a conceptual turn towards the concrete person of the athlete, especially when it comes on the relative availability of the exercise of the right of the image so clearly when it regards the football players.