archives@tulane.edu / This dissertation is a study of the legal treatment of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in Colombia. The main hypothesis of this dissertation is that in Colombia, over time, a byproduct of the formal legal system designed to govern mining resources has been the emergence of alternative management systems for mining resources at a small-scale level, which crafted an order without law. This has been the constant through the history of Colombia. Local regulatory arrangements defined by traditional local miners are complex, community-based systems for mining resources management (CBSMRM) that are rooted in the historical defense of rural territories. Their complexity and social legitimacy do not mean that they are ideal systems, and these community systems do not regulate all small-scale mining activities. However, some communities have put in place local orders that are not based on formal institutions, but rather are regulatory frameworks with diverse sources of authority, rules, objectives, actors, and forms of guiding the activity. An ethnographic work done in Marmato, Caldas showed that local miners, over time, and as product of many experiments and social transformations, have crafted CBSMRM. In other words, at the local level, disenfranchised groups gestate their own forms of relating to and using mining resources; over time, this creates community-based forms of mining resources management. The order without law has grown outside the formal institutions and clashes with them. As consequence, stakeholders on the ground are facing a gridlock situation in which none of the orders is capable achieving real effectiveness. To solve this situation, a dialogic platform is proposed with the intention of creating a bridge to connect legalities and trigger an open participatory mechanism in which legalities and stakeholders can define the new rules to govern those resources. In other words, define a governance order as a system of rules that gravitates around social legitimacy and not the source of the norms defining social interaction. This is an effort to open the door to new regulatory alternatives and dialogues among legalities; it is not a final answer to the crisis that extractive activities are experiencing but the proposal of a social laboratory of deliberation. / 1 / juan diego alvarez

One cannot begin to understand the nature of Hul’qmi’num legal tradition without first acknowledging and understanding the relationship between culture and law. The Coast Salish people have a vibrant culture, influenced heavily by the nature of their relationships with their ancestors, their kin and their lands. These relationships permeate their legal tradition. Influencing not only regulatory aspects of law, but also dispute resolution processes. Trying to understand and appreciate this tradition outside of this worldview would be detrimental to the tradition itself, as I believe it would result in a transformation of the laws and practices. In thinking about the relationship between law and culture, this research has identified two fundamental categories of law within the Hul’qumi’num legal tradition: 1) snuw’uyulh and 2) family laws. Snuw’uyulh refers to a condition generated by the application of seven teachings: 1) Sts’lhnuts’amat (“Kinship/Family”); 2) Si’emstuhw (“Respect”); 3) Nu stl’I ch (“Love”); 4) Hw’uywulh (“Sharing/Support”); 5) Sh-tiiwun (“Responsibility”); 6) Thu’it (“Trust”); and 7) Mel’qt (“Forgiveness”). Accordingly, universal teachings seek to foster harmony, peacefulness, solidarity and kinship between all living beings and nature in the world. In a sense, snuw’uyulh is a state or condition and Hul’qumi’num legal tradition encompasses all the animating norms, customs and traditions that produce or maintain that state. As a result, Hul’qumi’num law functions as the device that produces or maintains the state of snuw’uyulh. There is another fundamental category of law present within the Hul’qumi’num world – family laws. Family laws encompass the norms, customs and traditions, or customary laws, which produce or maintain the state of snuw’uyulh. Law is a practice – an activity. Arguably, much of the practice of law takes places in the form of regulation and conflict and dispute resolution. Similar to how law cannot be separate from its surrounding culture, nor can the processes developed to resolve conflicts in the law. Since time immemorial the Hul’qumi’num Mustimuhw have utilized processes and practices to resolve conflicts and disputes both within their communities and with other communities in the Coast Salish world. Although the processes and practices have varied over time, it is possible to identify several inherent standards of conflict resolution which the Hul’qumi’num people continue to utilize in resolving their disputes. / Graduate / Sarah.Morales@uottawa.ca

Diese Arbeit hat die Frage zum Gegenstand, innerhalb welchen konzeptionellen Rahmens das internationale Privatrecht (IPR) sich angesichts moderner Entwicklungen bewegen sollte. Das „klassische“ IPR geht von Recht als einem zwangsläufig staatlich gesetzten Phänomen aus, weswegen sich internationalprivatrechtliche Systeme bislang nur innerhalb der Grenzen der jeweiligen nationalen Rechtssysteme denken ließen. Die Entwicklungen der letzten Jahrzehnte zeigen jedoch, dass die soziale Realität mehr und mehr staatlich-territorialen Festlegungen entwächst und sich stattdessen funktionell ausdifferenzierte Sektoren herausbilden, für die Landesgrenzen keine Relevanz mehr besitzen. In einer globalisierten Welt, so die Argumentation dieser Abhandlung, entsteht globaler Regulierungsbedarf außerhalb der traditionellen staatlichen Rechtssysteme. Um diesem Bedarf adäquat zu begegnen, muss das IPR als übergreifendes System gedacht werden, innerhalb dessen den einzelnen Staaten lediglich die Rolle unselbständiger Subsysteme zukommt. Die Auswirkungen dieser neuen Sichtweise werden anhand des Problems der Anwendung „fremden“ Rechts untersucht. / This thesis addresses the question of what conceptual framework is adequate for private international law in the light of modern developments. “Classic” private international law conceives of “the Law” as necessarily being issued by a state entity, as a consequence of which systems of private international law so far have been conceptually limited to the realm of national law systems. The developments of recent decades, however, show that social reality transcends governmental and territorial determinations with the creation of functionally differentiated sectors regardless of territorial boundaries. According to my argumentation, globalization entails global regulation necessities outside of the traditional national systems of law. In order to adequately meet the requirements of this new reality, private international law should be conceived of as an overarching system which comprises the national systems as mere subsystems. The consequences of this new perspective are being analyzed with regard to the problem of the application of "foreign" law.

Les normes privées intéressent le droit international à un double titre : se développant en marge du système interétatique classique, elles constituent l’un des visages d’une régulation privée transnationale émergente et soulèvent la question théorique de leur statut en droit international. Par ailleurs, leurs effets sur le commerce international (et particulièrement le fait qu’elles constituent un obstacle aux exportations des PED vers les marchés occidentaux), conduisent à s’interroger sur l’opportunité et les modalités de leur réglementation par le droit international des échanges. En dépit de leur diversité empirique qui rend difficile toute tentative de systématisation et de qualification juridique, nous considérons que la qualité des produits, qui constitue le fondement téléologique commun des normes privées, permet d’en justifier l’unité théorique et de les considérer comme un phénomène juridique à part entière. Nous démontrerons que les normes privées sont l’une des manifestations d’un droit transnational se développant en parallèle du droit interétatique « classique » et qu’elles jouissent par conséquent d’un statut juridique propre. De ce fait, leurs rapports avec la branche du droit international qu’elles intéressent le plus directement, le droit international des échanges, ne peuvent se limiter à l’approche classique de réglementation (ou approche « répressive », en ce qu’elle a pour seul but d’en limiter les effets restrictifs pour le commerce) mais doivent se concevoir dans une optique de coordination. / The recent proliferation of private standards is not only of growing interest to economists who seek to evaluate its impact on trade flows; it is also relevant to international law, particularly to international economic law, in a double perspective. First, from the perspective of legal theory, the legal status of private standards has still to be determined. Second, from an empirical standpoint, private standards have the potential to negatively impact the access of developing countries to the markets of developed countries. This raises the question of the opportunity and modalities of submitting them to the disciplines of the WTO Agreements. This study demonstrates that private standards are one of the expressions of broader ‘transnational law’, a body of law that has been developing in parallel to ‘traditional’ state-centered international law. This implies that international law cannot merely consider private standards as an object to be disciplined; rather, the traditional ‘repressive’ approach should be rejected in favor of a more collaborative approach stressing the interrelations between the two bodies of norms as well as possible forms of coordination.

The submitted dissertation thesis analyses the principle of primacy of EU law from the basic point of view of legal theory. It points out different approaches to the primacy principle and examines the arguments on which these approaches are based. The fist part of the thesis deals with the examination of the primacy principle related to its legal basis, using the sources most frequently listed in the literature: the founding treaties, the case law of the Court of Justice, legal theory (Kelsen's basic norm, Hart's rule of recognition and the legal sociology approaches), and international and national law. I have focused on the historical documents (Treaty Establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community), the concepts based on them (doctrine of the conferred powers and the principle of subsidiarity), and the non-ratified Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe and legally non-binding Declaration No. 17 attached to the Lisbon Treaty. I have applied a critical approach to the argumentation of the Court of Justice in the decisions establishing the principle of primacy: Van Gend en Loos, Costa, Internationale Handelsgesellschaft, Simmenthal. Taking into account the existing objections against the arguments used by the Court of Justice, I have...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:20:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Melissa Volpato Curi.pdf: 1744492 bytes, checksum: 3907b6db1f44d1c08c2bd100531a3bb3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Based on the recognition of legal pluralism, this thesis aims to analyze the norms that are specific to the Kamayurá indigenous people. From an internal perspective, the aim is to investigate the regulatory mechanisms that govern this society and the way that such rules are manifested on their oral expression and customs. The assumptions are based on research of the alleged inferiority of customary law in relation to positive law in force. In order to verify legal monism theoretical foundations, questions are raised on the veracity of the proposition according to what the written law, codified and based on the figure of the State, promotes more legal certainty than the common law, characterized by orality and the absence of the State. The analyses made in this work are based on theoretical and empirical research. By undergoing a literature review, it is intended to discuss the treatment given by State law to indigenous rights and to demonstrate the importance of recognizing legal pluralism in order to secure ethnic diversity in the country and for the construction of intercultural dialogue. To elucidate this plurality, Kamaiurá society is used as a study case, being this society structured by rules immersed in their social body. The field surveys, which were divided into two stages, allowed identifying the way customary law is organized in relation to the dynamics of this society. In general terms, the research demonstrates that the regulation and organization of the Kamaiurá society are not dependent upon positive law in force. They communicate in an effective way their entire cultural structure to set standards of social behavior, adopting postures sometimes rigid, sometimes more flexible. Taking into account the valorization of the community, rules enforcement is guided by joint deliberation, which transcends the idea of an unchanging traditionalism in order to ensure social welfare / Com base no reconhecimento do pluralismo jurídico, a presente tese tem por objetivo fazer uma análise das normas próprias do povo indígena Kamaiurá. A partir de uma perspectiva interna, pretende-se levantar quais os mecanismos normativos que regulam esta sociedade e como essas regras se manifestam diante da oralidade e dos costumes. As hipóteses se fundam na investigação da suposta inferioridade do direito consuetudinário frente ao direito positivo vigente. Buscando verificar as bases teóricas do monismo jurídico, questiona-se a veracidade da proposta de que o direito escrito, codificado e fundado na figura do Estado promove mais certezas jurídicas do que o direito costumeiro, caracterizado pela oralidade e pela ausência do Estado. As análises do trabalho se baseiam em pesquisas teóricas e empíricas. Por meio de uma revisão bibliográfica, pretende-se discutir o tratamento dado pelo direito estatal aos direitos indígenas e demonstrar a importância do reconhecimento do pluralismo jurídico para a garantia da diversidade étnica no país e para construção do diálogo intercultural. Para elucidar a referida pluralidade, tem-se como estudo de caso a sociedade Kamaiurá, que se estrutura por meio de normas imersas no corpo social. As pesquisas de campo, divididas em duas etapas, permitiram identificar como o direito costumeiro se organiza diante da dinâmica própria da sociedade em questão. Em linhas gerais, a pesquisa demonstra que a regulação e a organização da sociedade Kamaiurá independem do direito positivo vigente. De forma eficaz, comunicam toda a sua estrutura cultural para definir os padrões de conduta social, adotando, ora posturas rígidas, ora posturas mais flexíveis. Considerando a valorização da coletividade, a aplicação da norma se orienta pela deliberação conjunta, que para assegurar o bem-estar social transcende a ideia de um tradicionalismo imutável

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:53:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Melissa Volpato Curi.pdf: 1744492 bytes, checksum: 3907b6db1f44d1c08c2bd100531a3bb3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Based on the recognition of legal pluralism, this thesis aims to analyze the norms that are specific to the Kamayurá indigenous people. From an internal perspective, the aim is to investigate the regulatory mechanisms that govern this society and the way that such rules are manifested on their oral expression and customs. The assumptions are based on research of the alleged inferiority of customary law in relation to positive law in force. In order to verify legal monism theoretical foundations, questions are raised on the veracity of the proposition according to what the written law, codified and based on the figure of the State, promotes more legal certainty than the common law, characterized by orality and the absence of the State. The analyses made in this work are based on theoretical and empirical research. By undergoing a literature review, it is intended to discuss the treatment given by State law to indigenous rights and to demonstrate the importance of recognizing legal pluralism in order to secure ethnic diversity in the country and for the construction of intercultural dialogue. To elucidate this plurality, Kamaiurá society is used as a study case, being this society structured by rules immersed in their social body. The field surveys, which were divided into two stages, allowed identifying the way customary law is organized in relation to the dynamics of this society. In general terms, the research demonstrates that the regulation and organization of the Kamaiurá society are not dependent upon positive law in force. They communicate in an effective way their entire cultural structure to set standards of social behavior, adopting postures sometimes rigid, sometimes more flexible. Taking into account the valorization of the community, rules enforcement is guided by joint deliberation, which transcends the idea of an unchanging traditionalism in order to ensure social welfare / Com base no reconhecimento do pluralismo jurídico, a presente tese tem por objetivo fazer uma análise das normas próprias do povo indígena Kamaiurá. A partir de uma perspectiva interna, pretende-se levantar quais os mecanismos normativos que regulam esta sociedade e como essas regras se manifestam diante da oralidade e dos costumes. As hipóteses se fundam na investigação da suposta inferioridade do direito consuetudinário frente ao direito positivo vigente. Buscando verificar as bases teóricas do monismo jurídico, questiona-se a veracidade da proposta de que o direito escrito, codificado e fundado na figura do Estado promove mais certezas jurídicas do que o direito costumeiro, caracterizado pela oralidade e pela ausência do Estado. As análises do trabalho se baseiam em pesquisas teóricas e empíricas. Por meio de uma revisão bibliográfica, pretende-se discutir o tratamento dado pelo direito estatal aos direitos indígenas e demonstrar a importância do reconhecimento do pluralismo jurídico para a garantia da diversidade étnica no país e para construção do diálogo intercultural. Para elucidar a referida pluralidade, tem-se como estudo de caso a sociedade Kamaiurá, que se estrutura por meio de normas imersas no corpo social. As pesquisas de campo, divididas em duas etapas, permitiram identificar como o direito costumeiro se organiza diante da dinâmica própria da sociedade em questão. Em linhas gerais, a pesquisa demonstra que a regulação e a organização da sociedade Kamaiurá independem do direito positivo vigente. De forma eficaz, comunicam toda a sua estrutura cultural para definir os padrões de conduta social, adotando, ora posturas rígidas, ora posturas mais flexíveis. Considerando a valorização da coletividade, a aplicação da norma se orienta pela deliberação conjunta, que para assegurar o bem-estar social transcende a ideia de um tradicionalismo imutável

Esta dissertação aborda a constituição do camelódromo de Porto Alegre e de suas práticas de comércio popular, em sua relação com as tecnologias de (i)legibilidade produzidas na sua relação com o Estado. Este trabalho parte de uma etnografia realizada entre os anos de 2013 e 2014, que se focou tanto nas práticas e sentidos elaborados pelos comerciantes do camelódromo, quanto nas visões dos atores representantes dos órgãos de controle e vigilância estatal. A partir da perspectiva teórica de Veena Das & Deborah Poole, destaco que o Estado e suas margens interagem de forma coprodutiva. Inspirada nesta abordagem, percebendo o camelódromo como uma “margem”, objetivo demonstrar como o Estado e a margem em questão estabelecem uma relação de produção mútua a partir de suas práticas. Utilizo-me dos conceitos de (i)legibilidade e pluralismo jurídico para compreender os limites e as mobilidades de tal interação. A partir da análise dos dados coletados, pode-se depreender que o Estado é reforçado, ao mesmo passo que redefinido, pelas atividades informais do camelódromo. Por sua vez, tal fortalecimento também acontece, na relação com o Estado no comércio popular em questão, onde as tecnologias de controle estatais estimulam redes de solidariedade a se organizarem e produzirem práticas diversas, que relacionam códigos legais e condutas locais. / This dissertation approaches the constitution of Porto Alegre’s “camelódromo” and its popular trade’s practices, in relation with (i)legibility technologies produced in its nexus with the State. This study consists in an ethnography carried out between 2013 and 2014, which focused on practices and meanings produced by camelódromo’s vendors, as in the visions of the actors that represents the organs of state control and surveillance. From the theoretical perspective of Veena Das & Deborah Poole, I emphasize that the State and its margins interact in a coproductive way. Inspired by this approach, perceiving camelódromo as a margin, my purpose is to demonstrate how the State and the margin in question establish a mutual relation of production from their practices. I use, in this work, the concepts of (i)legibility and legal pluralism to understand the limits and mobilities of such interaction. From the analysis of the collected data, it is possible to deduce that the State is reinforced and redefined by camelódromo’s informal activities. In turn, this strengthening also happens between the relation of the State and popular trade in question, where State’s control technologies stimulate solidarity networks to organize and produce themselves various practices that relates legal codes and local behavior.

O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar a implantação da Operação Urbana Consorciada Água Branca, localizada no distrito da Barra Funda, bem como a produção da lei que a regulamenta. Observou-se em campo e em pesquisas a órgãos ligados à Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo que houve o direcionamento de recursos públicos para o fomento de atividades econômicas em detrimento de demandas sociais na área de estudo. Nossas categorias de análise foram o território usado e a norma, que utilizamos para compreender a construção de uma lei que visa à transformação dos usos do território de passado industrial e que agora incidem propostas de adensamento habitacional e de uso comercial. A produção normativa contou com a participação da sociedade civil, com destaque aos moradores da região e dos promotores imobiliários, mediados pelo Poder Público municipal, caracterizando, assim, um caso de pluralismo jurídico. Por meio das audiências públicas e de entrevistas realizadas com os vereadores, representantes dos moradores da área de estudo e do mercado imobiliário, verificou-se a conflituosa relação entre os diferentes setores da sociedade civil. Desta forma, a norma jurídica, criada em 2013, reflete os desejos e necessidades do uso do território do período atual no município de São Paulo evidenciando as práticas sociais vigentes e as especificidades do distrito da Barra Funda / The objective of this dissertation is to analyze the implementation of the Joint Urban Operation Agua Branca, located in the Barra Funda district; as well as the creation of the law that governs it. It was observed in the field and research, in this area of study, which was done with bodies linked to the Municipality of São Paulo that public resources were directed to the promotion of economic activities to the detriment of social demands. Our categories of analysis were: the used territory, and the standard, and were used to understand and help in the creation of a law aimed at the transformation of the use of the territory of an industrial past which is now proposed for housing and commercial use. The normative creation also took into consideration the participation of civil society, especially local residents and property developers, mediated by the municipal government, thus characterizing a case of legal pluralism. Through public hearings and interviews with councilors, representatives of the residents of the studied area and the real estate market, it was verified a conflicting relationship between the different sectors of civil society. Thus, the normative (rule of law), created in 2013 , reflects the desires and needs of the use of the territory of the current period (nowadays) São Paulo highlighting current social practices and the specifics of the Barra Funda district

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / The official version of law in Australia is that the state has a monopoly over sovereignty: there is only one Australian law whose meaning is determined by the courts. However, the courts have implied that there is another law, the law of Indigenous peoples which exists as a social fact. It can be recognised by the state for particular purposes, such as the protection of the ‘native title’ of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders to their traditional countries. Native title is characterised as the translation of a primarily spiritual connection to land into proprietary rights and interests, requiring proof of the connection that a particular Indigenous society has under traditional laws and customs continuously acknowledged since Britain claimed sovereignty. Given the special nature of native title, the preference is to recognise title by negotiated agreement. This thesis undertakes a study of some of the assumptions and inconsistencies on which the recognition of native title – and this ‘not quite’ legal pluralism – rests. It questions law’s relation to fact, time, space, identity, language and practice as these are deployed in calibrating Indigenous peoples’ claims, and so reaches across disciplines to History (questioning the knowable past), Philosophy (the notion of recognition), Legal Theory (the concept of law as rules and the separation between law and fact), Anthropology and Literary Studies (the possibility of translation), Aesthetics (the rationality of proof), and Geography (the alternative space of negotiation). In looking closely at the practical and discursive process of making a claim, an account of native title can be given that refuses the cogency of the monopoly of sovereignty, and envisages instead a multi-faceted phenomenon that is the ‘unofficial’ law of native title. Native title is a set of practices which stimulate new articulations of Indigenous law and settler law and put them in relation with one another: the process of recognition is also a creative process of transformation.