Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1369
Felipe Alamino, Izabela Zonato
LGBTQIA+ asylum is a reality in Brazil, although it is not expressly included in the convention. Starting with historical research, the article shows how LGBTQIA+ asylum has been consolidated in International Law and, specifically in Brazil, as a country where there are also cases of homophobia and transphobia, LGBTQIA+ asylum is guaranteed, even if the information requested from the Federal Police and the National Committee for Refugees from Brazil do not currently indicate whether the number of concessions specifically for these groups has increased or decreased. Addressing the cliquet effect, it demonstrates the impossibility of retroaction in terms of Human Rights, preventing the denial of the granting of asylum in Brazil to this people, which is the distinctive focus of the research. The deductive method, combined with qualitative analysis of primary sources, such as official documents, and bibliographical sources were used to achieve the results.
{"title":"LGBTQIA+ asylum: from recognition to data provision in Brazil","authors":"Felipe Alamino, Izabela Zonato","doi":"10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1369","url":null,"abstract":"LGBTQIA+ asylum is a reality in Brazil, although it is not expressly included in the convention. Starting with historical research, the article shows how LGBTQIA+ asylum has been consolidated in International Law and, specifically in Brazil, as a country where there are also cases of homophobia and transphobia, LGBTQIA+ asylum is guaranteed, even if the information requested from the Federal Police and the National Committee for Refugees from Brazil do not currently indicate whether the number of concessions specifically for these groups has increased or decreased. Addressing the cliquet effect, it demonstrates the impossibility of retroaction in terms of Human Rights, preventing the denial of the granting of asylum in Brazil to this people, which is the distinctive focus of the research. The deductive method, combined with qualitative analysis of primary sources, such as official documents, and bibliographical sources were used to achieve the results.","PeriodicalId":36457,"journal":{"name":"Onati Socio-Legal Series","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70042404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1334
Garima Raghuvanshy
One of the most significant and confounding anomalies facing experts and commentators is the Hindutva movement’s popularity amongst Dalit and OBC voters. If the Hindutva movement is Brahmanical, how can it be the choice of those it seeks to oppress? This article examines this conundrum. It addresses three central arguments in claims that the movement is Brahmanical, showing how these are based on arbitrary, incomplete data (such as the claim that the Sangh Parivar is against caste-based reservations), or hide conceptual contradictions (such as the argument that the Sangh’s opposition to proselytization is casteist). Furthermore, taken to their logical end, explanations for the movement’s success amongst Dalit and OBC groups raise fundamental questions for/contradictions to the received view on the caste system. This article concludes that describing the Hindutva movement as Brahmanical raises many questions for the received view on the caste system without furthering our understanding of the movement in any way.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1341
Jorge Luis Silva, Lisett Páez
El cerco económico impuesto por el gobierno estadounidense al Estado cubano ha propiciado circunstancias de permanente excepcionalidad frente a la comunidad internacional. La política de Guerra Fría respaldada en la Ley Helms-Burton desde 1996, comenzó en 2019 una nueva etapa de acciones acrecentadas con la activación del Título III de dicha ley, para impedir la inversión extranjera en Cuba y favorecer un cambio de régimen. Este artículo pretende argumentar el impacto del bloqueo como medida coercitiva unilateral en un contexto sociopolítico irregular que se ha extendido por más de seis décadas en el caso cubano. Se analiza la nacionalización de 1959 como acto de soberanía estatal, el carácter ilegítimo y extraterritorial del bloqueo en tanto viola el Derecho Internacional Público y constituye un acto irracional de guerra económica, así como una arbitraria sanción política que perjudica los más elementales derechos humanos.
{"title":"La aplicación de medidas coercitivas unilaterales en contextos excepcionales: El caso del bloqueo económico, financiero y comercial hacia Cuba","authors":"Jorge Luis Silva, Lisett Páez","doi":"10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1341","url":null,"abstract":"El cerco económico impuesto por el gobierno estadounidense al Estado cubano ha propiciado circunstancias de permanente excepcionalidad frente a la comunidad internacional. La política de Guerra Fría respaldada en la Ley Helms-Burton desde 1996, comenzó en 2019 una nueva etapa de acciones acrecentadas con la activación del Título III de dicha ley, para impedir la inversión extranjera en Cuba y favorecer un cambio de régimen. Este artículo pretende argumentar el impacto del bloqueo como medida coercitiva unilateral en un contexto sociopolítico irregular que se ha extendido por más de seis décadas en el caso cubano. Se analiza la nacionalización de 1959 como acto de soberanía estatal, el carácter ilegítimo y extraterritorial del bloqueo en tanto viola el Derecho Internacional Público y constituye un acto irracional de guerra económica, así como una arbitraria sanción política que perjudica los más elementales derechos humanos.","PeriodicalId":36457,"journal":{"name":"Onati Socio-Legal Series","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70041836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1352
Asbjørn Storgaard
In this paper a baseline of contemporary access to justice research is established. The baseline clearly illustrates key features of the research field suggesting that while the field of research has become more multifaceted in the course of the last two or three decades, it is nevertheless very much dominated by law scholarship and structural analysis of legal service provision. Departing from this overview of access to justice research as of today, five calls for future research on access to justice explicated in the reviewed literature is presented and discussed. I argue that future research on access to justice should: 1) Reach a clearer understanding of the problem (of access to justice), 2) consider a multidisciplinary approach, 3) support and develop evidence-based policy by committing to empirical research, 4) study a wider variety of social realities and 5) look for quality. The reasonings of this paper are based on a scoping literature review.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1362
Fatima Alhewail
On 30 June 2020, Kuwait celebrated the appointment of eight female judges for the first time in the nation’s history. Women’s access to judgeship was preceded by the admittance of women as public prosecutors in 2013, which is the main gate to become a judge in Kuwait. As of 2020, female prosecutors constitute 27 per cent of the total number of public prosecutors in Kuwait. The article points out drivers for change in Kuwaiti society which opened up for women’s appointment as judges. It addresses the five-year period between 2013-2020 preceding the appointment of women judges, and debates that arose when eight women judges were appointed amidst the coronavirus pandemic which broke out in March 2020. Three questions are explored: First, how and why have Kuwaiti women been appointed as judges in 2020, more than five decades after women entered the field of law studies in 1967? Secondly, what forms of opposition were voiced in public through the Kuwaiti media against appointing women as judges? Thirdly, which civil society groups supported women’s entry into judgeship, and what arguments did they use to counter the arguments of the opposition?
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Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1342
A. Garrido
El Acuerdo de Paz con las FARC-EP ha sido pionero en la incorporación de la agenda de Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad en los procesos de postconflicto. La creación de la Subcomisión de género, conformada por la sociedad civil organizada, se instituyó como una medida innovadora que impulsó la incorporación transversal del enfoque de género en el Acuerdo Final de Paz (2016). Estas disposiciones han supuesto un avance en la incorporación de una justicia transicional equitativa en el país; que promueve la reparación del impacto diferencial de la violencia en las mujeres y la población LGTBI+. Por estos motivos, el presente artículo tiene como objetivo abordar, desde una perspectiva de género, la innovación de las medidas legislativas desarrolladas en Colombia, en el contexto de excepcionalidad que caracteriza estos acuerdos, con el fin de ofrecer un análisis de la situación que pueda ofrecer lecciones para otros procesos de justicia transicional.
{"title":"La excepción como norma en Colombia: La atención al género tras el Acuerdo de Paz con las FARC-EP","authors":"A. Garrido","doi":"10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1342","url":null,"abstract":"El Acuerdo de Paz con las FARC-EP ha sido pionero en la incorporación de la agenda de Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad en los procesos de postconflicto. La creación de la Subcomisión de género, conformada por la sociedad civil organizada, se instituyó como una medida innovadora que impulsó la incorporación transversal del enfoque de género en el Acuerdo Final de Paz (2016). Estas disposiciones han supuesto un avance en la incorporación de una justicia transicional equitativa en el país; que promueve la reparación del impacto diferencial de la violencia en las mujeres y la población LGTBI+. Por estos motivos, el presente artículo tiene como objetivo abordar, desde una perspectiva de género, la innovación de las medidas legislativas desarrolladas en Colombia, en el contexto de excepcionalidad que caracteriza estos acuerdos, con el fin de ofrecer un análisis de la situación que pueda ofrecer lecciones para otros procesos de justicia transicional.","PeriodicalId":36457,"journal":{"name":"Onati Socio-Legal Series","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49325988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1349
Silvia Bartolini
The principle of mutual trust underpins EU proceedings for the return of the child following abduction. On such a basis, the courts of the Member State of refuge shall trust the courts of the Member State where the child was habitually resident immediately before the abduction being willing and capable to protect the EU fundamental rights of the child concerned. Therefore, they should not refrain from enforcing a certified judgment requiring the immediate return of the child, even in situations where there is a clear risk that the return is contrary to that child’s best interests. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that there is a necessity – in the field of EU proceedings for the return of the child following abduction – to move beyond absolute trust, in order to ensure adequate protection of the children concerned.
{"title":"Mutual trust through the looking glass: The protection of children’s fundamental rights in EU return proceedings","authors":"Silvia Bartolini","doi":"10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1349","url":null,"abstract":"The principle of mutual trust underpins EU proceedings for the return of the child following abduction. On such a basis, the courts of the Member State of refuge shall trust the courts of the Member State where the child was habitually resident immediately before the abduction being willing and capable to protect the EU fundamental rights of the child concerned. Therefore, they should not refrain from enforcing a certified judgment requiring the immediate return of the child, even in situations where there is a clear risk that the return is contrary to that child’s best interests. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that there is a necessity – in the field of EU proceedings for the return of the child following abduction – to move beyond absolute trust, in order to ensure adequate protection of the children concerned.","PeriodicalId":36457,"journal":{"name":"Onati Socio-Legal Series","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48966979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1359
Mariana Sanchez
El presente trabajo tiene por objetivo reflexionar sobre la Sociología Jurídica como disciplina, a partir de sus conceptualizaciones, campos de estudio y principales enfoques teóricos. Aborda desde un enfoque crítico el estudio del Derecho como fenómeno social, y su comprensión desde los enfoques sociales en los que opera y de los significados que los sujetos construyen a partir de sus normas. Igualmente revisa las principales y diversas explicaciones teóricas acerca del Derecho de los clásicos autores de la Teoría Sociológica. Lejos de concluir que esta diversidad teórica es contradictoria o confusa en los análisis del Derecho y del sistema jurídico, debemos admitir que –por el contrario– la perspectiva sociológica es multiparadigmática y transitarla propone un interesante desafío.
{"title":"Sociología jurídica: Introducción y principales enfoques teóricos","authors":"Mariana Sanchez","doi":"10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1359","url":null,"abstract":"El presente trabajo tiene por objetivo reflexionar sobre la Sociología Jurídica como disciplina, a partir de sus conceptualizaciones, campos de estudio y principales enfoques teóricos. Aborda desde un enfoque crítico el estudio del Derecho como fenómeno social, y su comprensión desde los enfoques sociales en los que opera y de los significados que los sujetos construyen a partir de sus normas. Igualmente revisa las principales y diversas explicaciones teóricas acerca del Derecho de los clásicos autores de la Teoría Sociológica. Lejos de concluir que esta diversidad teórica es contradictoria o confusa en los análisis del Derecho y del sistema jurídico, debemos admitir que –por el contrario– la perspectiva sociológica es multiparadigmática y transitarla propone un interesante desafío.","PeriodicalId":36457,"journal":{"name":"Onati Socio-Legal Series","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47081048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1358
Adriana Carolina Caballero Pérez
Voting rights of persons with disabilities must be ensured by States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The CRPD sets out legal obligations of States Parties to ensure de jure and de facto realisation of the right to vote by persons with disabilities. How can a disability researcher analyse compliance by States Parties with the CRPD? The present article argues that for achieving a fully developed disability legal scholarship, legal studies about the implementation of the CRPD need to combine the perspectives of jurisprudence and social sciences. Based on the author’s experience in carrying out the ongoing study “Voting Matters”, this article examines an innovative theoretical and methodological framework to understand how the CRPD is implemented through law and policy, and “in practice”. This means to investigate the “CRPD-in-action”. It concludes that this is a challenging task that can be accomplished through an evidence-based approach and a mixed-research design.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1361
Joxerramon Bengoetxea
The institutional theory of law provides the conceptual foundations both for a sociologically sound and theoretically coherent socio-legal theory of law and for comparative research into legal cultures. By conceiving law as institutional normative order the institutional theory can accommodate for the rich historical and cultural diversity in the forms of law. This article analyses the three components of the institutional theory, i.e. norms, order and institutions, and gives a brief account of the types of norms that institutions bring together, their sociological dimension and the typologies of legal institutions. The notion of order is enhanced by the institutional theory to account both for claims to practical operation of the law and for the existence of conflicts, calling for institutional approaches to dispute resolution. This opening to “order and dispute” raises the question of justice and fairness of the norms and of the mechanisms of dispute resolution. Comparison of legal cultures needs to identify the legal fields that are being compared, with a view to producing a workable set of legal culture comparators for comparative purposes. These comparators would need further spelling out to deliver measurable indicators.
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