This paper analyzes the current estate of the diverse integration processes in South America; their different orientations and emphasis, their common denominators and divergences, but mainly, their necessity to impulse efforts and synergies searching for their convergence in a great sub regional integration project. The institutional convergence of the diverse integration processes set in motion in South America, may serve as an efficient instrument to achieve greater levels of economic and social well-being, deepening and improvement of the regional democratic standards and forge a geopolitical block that allows us to transform South America in to an international actor that takes advantage and manages the opportunities generated by globalization better.

This paper analyses the exponential development of telecommunications during these past years, and their rising impact in the exercise and enjoyment of fundamental rights. They are so necessary that the access to telecommunications in a world where globalization is constantly increasing has become a matter of great importance in order to ensure greater levels of wellbeing and development for millions of people in the planet.

This paper proposes an exercise of legal imagination in the event that something so spectacular and unexpected, such as the visit of an intelligent alien civilization, takes place, and ends by making us understand that we are not alone in this universe. This exercise includes a glimpse of how, in the face of the collapse of old paradigms and systems, the discipline of Law can contribute both to the establishment of different types of relations with extraterrestrial visitors, as well as in the construction of the new human civilization.

This work focuses on analyzing the most salient and controversial aspects of the final report of the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), developed in Peru by an ad hoc working between 2001 and 2003, in order to know and understand in greater depth the political and social events that shook the country between May 1980 and November 2000. That period covers from the public appearance of the Shining Path with burning ballot boxes and election materials in the distant town of Chuschi ayacuchano until the resignation of Alberto Fujimori President of the Republic via fax from Tokyo, Japan. The events during those two decades dramatically changed the country and defined the face of the current Peru facing the XXI century. However, although the final report of the TRC represents the most serious effort and systematic to explain the origins, causes and consequences of that fa...

In the framework of the recent general elections and in the context of the commemoration of the bicentennial of the Republic, there has been an intense legal and political debate among those in favor of moving towards a Constituent Assembly that fully renews the fundamental charter; and the defenders of introducing partial reforms to the current Constitution of 1993 through the mechanisms established therein for this purpose. This article explores the advantages, limitations and dangers of both routes. In the same way, it proposes a set of constitutional reforms always having as its objective the need to preserve the essential conditions for democratic governance and the strengthening of fundamental rights in Peru in the 21st century.

El presente trabajo analiza la actualidad de los diversos procesos de integración existentes en América del Sur: sus diversas orientaciones y énfasis, sus denominadores comunes y sus divergencias, pero sobre todo, la necesidad de impulsar esfuerzos y sinergias buscando la convergencia de los mismos en un gran proyecto de integración subregional. La convergencia institucional de los diversos procesos de integración puestos en marcha en América del Sur, puede servir como un instrumento eficaz para alcanzar mayores niveles de bienestar económico y social, para la profundización y el mejoramiento de los estándares democráticos en la región, y para forjar un bloque geopolítico que nos permita convertir a Sudamérica en un actor internacional que aproveche y gestione mejor las oportunidades que genera la globalización.

El presente trabajo analiza el exponencial desarrollo de las telecomunicaciones durante los últimos años, y su creciente impacto en el ejercicio y disfrute de los derechos fundamentales. Resultan tan necesarios que el acceso a las mismas en un mundo cada vez más globalizado como el actual, se ha convertido en un asunto de la mayor importancia a efectos de garantizar mejores niveles de bienestar y desarrollo para millones de personas en el planeta.

El presente artículo plantea un ejercicio de imaginación jurídica en el caso que algo tan espectacular e inesperado, como la visita de una civilización alienígena inteligente, se produzca y termine por hacernos comprender que no estamos solos en este universo. Dicho ejercicio comprende vislumbrar como, ante el derrumbe de los viejos paradigmas y sistemas, la disciplina del Derecho puede aportar tanto en el establecimiento de diversos tipos de relaciones con los visitantes extraterrestres, así como en la construcción de la nueva civilización humana.Humanidad – Derechos Humanos – Civilización Alienígena – Derecho Internacional Público- Exo-Derecho – Relación Humano-Alienígena – Representación Humana – Imperativo Categórico