In this paper, the authors analyze the positions on the objectives of Comparative Law as an autonomous discipline, as well as the intersection between law and economics and its implications for future studies of law. this is studied in relation not only to what is Law, but with what it should be. ending the authors propose a new perspective for comparatists lawyers, seeking to revitalize legal research. / En el presente artículo, los autores analizan las posiciones acerca de los objetivos del Derecho Comparado como una disciplina autónoma, así como la intersección entre Derecho y la economía y sus implicancias en los futuros estudios del Derecho. todo ello se estudia a en relación no solo a lo que es el Derecho, sino con lo que debería ser. Finalizan los autores proponiendo una nueva perspectiva para los abogados comparatistas, buscando revitalizar la investigación jurídica.

O presente trabalho tem como hipótese a identificação de um subsistema jurídico atinente à tributação da renda no agronegócio. Para isso, parte do estudo dos conceitos de sistema e subsistema a fim de delimitar seus elementos essenciais (a ordenação e a unidade), bem como as normas a partir das quais estes poderiam ser delimitados. Verificado que tais elementos se identificam a partir de princípios, o trabalho analisa as teorias que diferenciam os princípios das regras e conclui residir sua distinção na estrutura de aplicação. Segue pelo estudo da extrafiscalidade e das normas tributárias indutoras para tornar possível a adequada compreensão de como pode a tributação ser influenciada por aspectos além da mera arrecadação, etapa essencial para compreender os critérios de ordenação e unidade do subsistema da tributação da renda no agronegócio. Definido esse arcabouço, identifica e analisa os conceitos de renda e de agronegócio, para então definir os princípios que determinam os critérios de ordenação e unidade do subsistema jurídico da tributação da renda e do subsistema jurídico do Direito do Agronegócio. Explora, então, a legislação que confere tratamento diferenciado ao agronegócio e, ato contínuo, a legislação relativa à tributação da renda no agronegócio, para concluir ser existente um subsistema jurídico da tributação da renda no agronegócio que determina o incentivo desse setor por meio de normas tributárias indutoras que favoreçam o exercício da atividade rural (cerne do agronegócio e origem do elemento agrariedade) ou, ainda, o exercício das atividades a ela anteriores e posteriores, sempre tendo como objetivo e efeito primordial o favorecimento da atividade rural ou a mitigação dos riscos decorrentes da agrariedade sobre toda a cadeia agroindustrial. / This study\'s working hypothesis is that it is possible to identify a legal subsystem governing the income taxation in agribusiness. To verify this, the work begins by studying the concepts of system and subsystem in order to delimitate its essential elements (ordering and unity), as well as the rules based on which such elements could be delimitated. Verifying that such elements are identified based on principles, the study analyzes the theories that differentiate principles from rules and concludes that their distinction lies in the structure of application. The work then continues by studying the ability of taxes to influence behavior, allowing the proper understanding of the manners in which taxation might be influenced by aspects other than mere revenue, an essential step for understanding the ordering and unity criteria for the subsystem of agribusiness income taxation. Having defined such framework, it identifies and analyzes the concepts of income and agribusiness, and then defines the principles determining the ordering and unity criteria for the legal subsystem of income taxation and the legal subsystem of Agribusiness Law. It then explores the legislation that provides for a different treatment of agribusiness and, in sequence, the legislation that governs income taxation in agribusiness, finally concluding that there exists an agribusiness income taxation legal subsystem that determines the incentives in this sector through inductive tax rules favoring the engagement in rural activities (the core of agribusiness and the origin of its liability on biological cycles - \"agrarian-ness\") or even the performance of the activities that are prior and later thereto, always with the intended goal and primary effect of favoring rural activities or mitigating the risks arising from agrarian-ness affecting the entire Agribusiness Chain.

En dépit de leurs histoire et géographie distinctes, les systèmes juridiques romano-germanique et de common law ont longtemps influencé et continuent encore d’influencer, au Cameroun, le développement de la procédure pénale en général et des droits de la défense en particulier.D’une influence distincte et imposée dès la colonisation, avec pour caractéristiques principales, en matière pénale, l’existence de deux codes de procédures pénales et une disparité des droits de la personne poursuivie en fonction de la partie du territoire camerounais (ex-Cameroun oriental/ ex-Cameroun occidental), le législateur est parvenu en 2005, sur la base d’une influence commune et voulue des systèmes juridiques romano-germanique et de common law, à construire une procédure et un système de défense pénale uniques, caractérisés par un accroissement des droits de la défense.Produits des compromis et vecteurs du creuset d’influences réciproques des différents systèmes de droit romano-germanique et de common law, les droits de la défense au Cameroun, de la phase préparatoire à la phase décisoire du procès pénal, ont été construits autour des lignes de partage variables, qui traduisent plus une volonté de métissage du droit que l’hégémonie d’un seul système. / Despite their separate history and geography, civil and common law legal systems have long influenced and continue to influence, in Cameroon, the development of criminal procedure in general and the rights of the defence in particular.From a separate and imposed influence since colonization, with main characteristics, in criminal matters, the existence of two criminal procedure codes and a disparity of defense rights depending on the part of the Cameroon territory (eastern Cameroon / western Cameroon), the legislator in 2005, on the basis of a common and desired influence of civil and common law legal systems, succeeded to build a common procedure and criminal defence system, characterized by an increasing of the rights of defence.Products of compromises and vectors of crucible reciprocal influences of civil and common law legal systems, the rights of the defence in Cameroon, from the pre-trial phase to the trial phase of the criminal trial, were built around variable dividing lines, reflecting more a willingness to miscegenation than the hegemony of a single law system.

This thesis has three objectives. Its primary objective is to examine, and critically evaluate, the theoretical accounts offered by Hans Kelsen and Joseph Raz to explain the temporal continuity and discontinuity of legal systems. In particular, it evaluates the explanatory power of those accounts by combining an abstract analysis of the accounts in principle and an evaluation based on systematically applying them to one concrete, historically circumstanced instance: the legal systems of British derivation in Australia between 1788 and 2001. The thesis thus tests each account’s factual fit: how adequately it corresponds to, accords with, and persuasively makes sense of, the facts – including complex social facts, attitudes and normative standards – for which it purports to offer an account. Second, the thesis aims to demonstrate, more generally, the utility of applying theoretical accounts to a particular historical instance to complement abstract analysis. Third, the thesis aims to advance the understanding of the evolution of Australian legal systems between 1788 and 2001. These three objectives are achieved through the critical exposition and reconstruction of the accounts, their development and enrichment where refinement is appropriate, their application to the specific context of Australia and their evaluation, individually and in comparison.

Submitted by Ana Valéria de Jesus Moura (anavaleria_131@hotmail.com) on 2018-08-03T16:35:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação RODRIGO ANDRES JOPIA SALAZAR.pdf: 1265343 bytes, checksum: 5f3ad4ab2f387b029e2f8cf4bd1d99ce (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Valéria de Jesus Moura (anavaleria_131@hotmail.com) on 2018-08-03T16:36:12Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação RODRIGO ANDRES JOPIA SALAZAR.pdf: 1265343 bytes, checksum: 5f3ad4ab2f387b029e2f8cf4bd1d99ce (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T16:36:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação RODRIGO ANDRES JOPIA SALAZAR.pdf: 1265343 bytes, checksum: 5f3ad4ab2f387b029e2f8cf4bd1d99ce (MD5) / A presente dissertação, valendo-se da metodologia exploratória, tem como objetivo analisar a existência de normas, no Código de Processo Civil Brasileiro, que instituam uma metodologia decisória que utilize os precedentes judiciais como parâmetros para obtenção da coerência sistêmica. A hipótese apresentada é da existência de um método de decidir com base em precedentes judiciais, decorrência da organização sistêmica dos ordenamentos jurídicos, que se caracteriza por um compromisso com o passado, obrigando a observância dos precedentes sobre um determinado tema. Para a investigação da hipótese a dissertação foi dividida em quatro capítulos, cada um tendo o precedente como foco, mas em perspectivas distintas. O primeiro capitulo foi erigido sob uma preocupação conceitual sobre o precedente judicial. No segundo capítulo, o foco foi analisar o papel dos precedentes na argumentação jurídica e explicar as características de um método de decidir com base em precedente. O terceiro capítulo teve a análise do precedente judicial frente à teoria do fato jurídico. Por fim, o quarto capítulo faz o enfrentamento das disposições normativas com a hipótese adotada, utilizando-se das bases construídas ao longo dos três primeiros capítulos de forma a traçar as diretrizes para a compreensão do método de decidir com base em precedentes e da observância obrigatória dos precedentes judiciais no Código de Processo Civil Brasileiro. / The present thesis aims to analyze, on the grounds of exploratory research, the presence of norms that establish a methodology of adjudication on the basis of judicial precedents in the Brazilian Code of Civil Procedure, parameterizing systemic coherence. The presented hypothesis is that a precedent-based decisional method exists as a result of the organization of legal systems, which is characterized by a commitment to the past, entailing authoritative effects on particular topics. For the investigation of the hypothesis the thesis is divided into four chapters, each focusing on precedents under different perspectives. The first chapter is erected over the conceptual framework of the judicial precedent. The second chapter analyzes the role of precedents in legal argumentation and explains the characteristics of a precedent-based decisional method. The third chapter assess the judicial precedent in light of the theory of the juridical fact. Finally, the fourth chapter confronts the statutory provisions with the hypothesis, building upon the analysis of the first three chapters in order to present guidelines for understanding the method of adjudicating on the basis of precedents and its binding effects in the Brazilian Code of Civil Procedure.

Hereby submitted thesis {\clqq}EC law contravened by member state`` describes duties of member states regarding the harmonization of national rules of law to the communitary one. Thesis shows consequences of correct or incorrect conversion of superordinated communitary rules of law to national legal systems using concrete cases (examples) from Czech legal practice.

L’autorité de la chose jugée, expression de l’exigence de stabilité des décisions juridictionnelles et de la capacité de l’Etat souverain à exercer son pouvoir juridictionnel en tranchant définitivement l’affaire lui étant soumise, est fortement liée à l’enchainement processuel dont elle constitue l’aboutissement naturel. Ces dernières années, en raison de l’influence du droit supranational, la chose jugée subit également un processus d’érosion de son caractère irréfragable. En particulier, alors que le conflit entre chose jugée et décisions de la Cour de justice de l’UE apparait comme « pathologique », les spécificités du système conventionnel de protection des droits de l’homme provoquent un conflit quasi « physiologique » avec la chose jugée de droit interne. La nature particulière de ce dernier type de conflit s’explique non seulement en raison du principe de subsidiarité et de l’épuisement des voies de recours internes qui caractérisent la saisine de la Cour EDH, mais aussi du fait de la nécessité d’une « restitution in integrum » du requérant victime d’une violation conventionnelle qui impose une obligation de réouverture de la procédure interne, en exécution de l’article 46 Conv. EDH. La thèse analyse, sous l’angle comparé du droit italien et français, les notions qui sous-tendent ce conflit, à savoir la valeur de la res iudicata et l’incidence des systèmes européens de protection des droits fondamentaux sur l’ordre processuel interne pour ensuite se pencher sur les modalités concrètes par lesquelles les deux ordres juridiques ont permis le dépassement de l’autorité de la chose jugée pour garantir l’exécution des arrêts de la Cour EDH. Dans le cadre ainsi tracé, la récente entrée en vigueur du Protocole n. 16 à la Conv. EDH, introduisant un mécanisme consultatif devant la Cour EDH, ainsi que les perspectives offertes par le Protocole n. 15 à la Conv. EDH et par la possible adhésion de l’Union au système conventionnel, viennent recentrer le rôle reconnu à la Cour EDH en tant que juridiction régulatrice d’un système européen de protection des droits fondamentaux, et favorisent le dépassement du conflit entre la chose jugée et les décisions européennes en faveur du paradigme du "dialogue" entre les juges. / The effect of res judicata (also known as “a thing adjudged), an expression of the stability requirement of the jurisdictional decisions and the sovereign state’s capacity to exercise its jurisdictional power by making the final judgement on the matter, is a concept strongly connected with the criminal process which constitutes its natural result. In the last few years, as a result of solicitations of supranational origin whose domestic law is subject, res judicata also undergoes a process of erosion of its irrefutable nature. In particular, while the conflict between res judicata and decisions of the Court of Justice of European Union appears to be “pathological”, the specificities of the conventional system of human right protection provoke a virtually “physiological” conflict with the the doctrine of res judicata in domestic law. This is done considering the principle of subsidiarity and the exhaustion of domestic remedies which characterize the appeal to the European Court of Human Rights jointly with the fact that the requirement of the effective "restitutio in integrum" of the applicant victim of a recognized breach of his rights imposes an obligation to reopen the domestic proceedings, according to article 46 ECHR. The thesis analyses under the angle of Italian and French law, the concepts underlying the conflict, especially the value of res judicata and the impact of European systems of protection of fundamental rights on the internal criminal process, secondly, to examine the concrete ways in which the two legal orders have allowed the effect of res judicata to be exceeded in order to guarantee the execution of ECHR judgments. In this context, the recent entry into force of the Protocol n. 16 at EDH, introducing a consultative mechanism before the ECHR, as well as the prospects outlined by the Protocol n. 15 at ECHR and by the possible accession of the European Union to the conventional system, refocus the recognized role of the ECHR as a regulatory jurisdiction of the European protection system for fundamental rights, and promote the overcoming of the conflict between res judicata and European decisions in favor of the "dialogue" between judges.

This thesis explores if and how states can regain control over large social media platforms like Facebook, and by doing so ensuring that individuals on those platforms can de facto enjoy their human rights, as enshrined in international treaties. Today, the platforms are crucial facilitators of human rights but at the same time facilitators of threats towards the enjoyment of the same rights. Behind this duality hides three gaps, namely between individuals’ de jure enshrined human rights and their de facto possibilities to enjoy them on social media, states extensive de jure obligations to ensure those rights on social media and their limited de facto possibilities to actually do so, and lastly between the platforms limited de jure responsibilities to respect human rights and their extensive de facto influence over human rights. The reason that these gaps have arisen is essentially that public international law – mainly its strict horizontal character and its definition of jurisdiction as something exclusively tied to a delimited physical territory – is inadequate to tackle the virtual, cross-border, and non-state activity that the platforms are pursuing. To find what could be done to lessen these gaps, this thesis turns to theories in analytical jurisprudence and public international law: the identity of systems, legal pluralism and international legal subjectivity. The first suggests that this issue cannot be solved due to different legal systems having different identities and thus cannot be bridged. The second also suggests that the issue cannot be solved not because of differing identities of systems but because the platforms should be regarded as autonomous legal systems, not subordinate to state law. Finally, the third alternative suggests an actual solution: making the platforms subject directly to international law and universal jurisdiction. Even though this is a legally sound solution it is, however, not as simple a solution as it might appear.

"L’Eglise s’est toujours considérée comme un ordre infra-étatique (l’Eglise dans l’Etat avec ses paroisses et ses diocèses), tout en obéissant aux règles posées par une autorité étrangère à l’Etat, la papauté. De ce fait, l’Eglise est un ordre juridique concurrençant l’Etat, car elle exerce une domination sur le même territoire et les mêmes sujets. Le Gallicanisme se présente comme la synthèse permettant de régler juridiquement ces conflits. Il prône l’indépendance de l’Eglise de France et de l’Etat face à la papauté et suppose l’intervention du Souverain dans les affaires ecclésiastiques. Deux mécanismes juridiques essentiels servent à remplir ces fonctions. D’une part, au moyen des techniques assurant la réception des règles ecclésiastiques dans l’Etat, le Gallicanisme produit un discours technicien ancré dans une doctrine de la souveraineté, pour préserver l’existence d’une « exception française » menacée par les prétentions hégémoniques romaines. D’autre part, inventée pour résoudre les conflits de compétence opposant les autorités étatiques et ecclésiales, la procédure de l’appel comme d’abus subordonne l’Eglise de France à l’Etat par le contrôle juridictionnel de ses actes. Elle désigne l’Etat comme l’instance titulaire d’un pouvoir exclusif de déterminer l’étendue de sa propre compétence et de celle de l’ordre ecclésial. Envisagé sous l’angle des rapports entre ordres juridiques, le Gallicanisme apparaît alors comme une étape incontournable dans la construction intellectuelle de l’Etat moderne, à laquelle il fournit des supports théoriques et techniques". / By the properties that characterize it, Catholic Church is often considered, following the example of the State, as a legal system which takes place inside and outside State. Before the 1905 Act, Gallicanism struggles for independance of the Church of France and the State against papacy, encouraging Sovereign’s interventions in ecclesiastical affairs. Gallicanism can be translated in terms of relations between two legal systems, and the matter of this study is to prove this movement has been a momentum in the intellectual building of Modern State through the reflexion of french jurist from the Ancient Monarchy to the end of the 19th century. Church and State are, by many ways, concurrent systems aiming to dominate the same territory and the same subjects. Gallican thoughts present themselves like an answer to these conflicts. Canonical rules promulgated by the Pope or a Council are not self-executing, and have to be approved by the Sovereign to be Law of the State. Gallicanism build a technical discurse based on State sovereignty to preserve a french particularism against the Roman hegemonic threath. Invented to resolve conflicts of competences between ecclesiastical and State’s authorities, the procedure named « appel comme d’abus » gives exclusive power to the State to determine the extent of its competence. Furthermore this procedure subordinates Church of France to State by the judicial review of its administrative acts.

La soutenance de thèse proposée est une soutenance sur travaux qui portent sur des questions de droit comparé des sociétés, de droit européen des sociétés et de l'arbitrage international. Les travaux portant sur le droit des sociétés s'interrogent sur les développements récents en matière de liberté d'établissement des sociétés en Europe suite à la jurisprudence rendue par la Cour européenne de justice et sur l'opération des Limited liability company de droit anglais en Allemagne et des questions de droit international privé que cela soulève. Le travail sur le droit de l'arbitrage s'interroge sur le sort des traités bilatéraux d'investissement conclus entre Etats devenus Etats membres de l'Union européenne face à la politique menée par la Commission Européenne qui vise leur annulation. / The papers submitted for the viva deal with various comparative company law, European company law and international arbitration related issues. The company law papers look at the recent developments in the freedom of establishment of companies in Europe resulting from the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and at the operation of English law limited liability companies in Germany and certain of the private international law questions that arise in that context. The paper on international arbitration discusses the future of bilateral investment treaties concluded between EU member states in light of the European Commission's hostile approach to such treaties aiming at obtaining their annulment.