This year (2012) we are celebrating the bicentennial of the Constitution of Cadiz, the first and only political chart of the Spanish monarchy that considered those born in both hemispheres as citizens with equal rights, including creoles, indians and mestizos and even the illiterate. Similarly, the reformist and liberal character of the Constitution of Cadiz enabled the punishment of a number of human liberties and rights, which would be included in all of the following Peruvian Constitutions, thereby constituting its natural point of reference. The acknowledgement of the people as a source of sovereignty led to the first municipal and parliamentary elections, thereby establishing the discipline of Electoral Law. This article highlights the importance and the historical autonomy of the municipalities, transferred from Spain to Peru and which existed long before in Rome, reflecting on its...

This year (2012) we are celebrating the bicentennial of the Constitution of Cadiz, the first and only political chart of the Spanish monarchy that considered those born in both hemispheres as citizens with equal rights, including creoles, indians and mestizos and even the illiterate. Similarly, the reformist and liberal character of the Constitution of Cadiz enabled the punishment of a number of human liberties and rights, which would be included in all of the following Peruvian Constitutions, thereby constituting its natural point of reference. The acknowledgement of the people as a source of sovereignty led to the first municipal and parliamentary elections, thereby establishing the discipline of Electoral Law. This article highlights the importance and the historical autonomy of the municipalities, transferred from Spain to Peru and which existed long before in Rome, reflecting on its...

Nuestro tema de investigación exige el estudio de la historia y del Derecho Hebreo y Romano vigentes durante el primer siglo de nuestra era en la zona conocida hoy como Israel y Palestina en el Asia menor. En especial se pretende analizar el conjunto de normas jurídicas y consuetudinarias que se habrían tomado en cuenta en el famoso proceso judicial contra Jesús. La primera fuente, sin duda, es la Biblia cristiana cuya parte denominada el Nuevo testamento con los cuatro evangelios canónicos de Marcos, Mateo, Lucas y Juan que consignan noticias concretas y útiles para nuestro trabajo. Empero, por su naturaleza eminentemente religiosa deben ser reexaminados y revaluados bajo un estricto marco histórico y jurídico cuyo desarrollo de algunas fuentes, no todas, desmenuzamos del modo siguiente: a) La Biblia cristiana.- Hay muchas formas de leer o interpretar la Biblia que en verdad no ...