This review article presents some preliminary considerations and describes the evolution of corporate social responsibility, which is necessary for an informed study of this “tool”.In that sense, the authors resort to a preliminary exploration of the conceptual framework of the legal-economic approach presenting social responsibility and the relationship that subsists with “property rights”,the relevance of “transaction costs”,among other aspects. They also explore the interrelation between social responsibility and its forms of legal exercise and its characterization in areas that involve linking it with workers, unions, and consumers. The aim is to highlight its importance and build a contribution where social responsibility will be studied from an analytical and empirical perspective. Thus, it is sought to conclude that the company considers implementing and complying with...

At the international level, in the area of Contract Law, this article begins with a critical review of the current regulatory scenario in Ecuador and its European counterpart. Then, the article aims to comparatively address the objectives, nature and scope of the UNIDROIT Principles, the PECL and the Pavia Draft. They constitute a modern lex mercatoria seeking to go beyond what are the national laws and systems and become the law of business. Above all, the PECL and the DCFR had a crucial indirect effect that influenced jurisprudence and national reforms. Finally, the article identifies the prevailing ius-privatist spirit in Europe as a difference, compared to a model like the Ecuadorian, which is committed to the constitutionalization of the private law (civil and commercial) and a strict delimitation of the principle of private autonomy.

The power of the government rather than limiting it), human rights and democracy. Therefore, this paper will explore the following research questions: 1. Is the current macro legal framework in Peru and Ecuador consistent with what is generally defined as Rule of Law or is it more related to what is known as Soft Rule of Law? 2. To what extend does a theoretical analysis support the prevailing of a Soft Rule of Law in Ecuador and Peru? This paper has been divided into seven sections. Section one refers to a theoretical revision of the term Rule of Law, section two presents on the concept of soft rule of law, section three focuses on human rights as an essential element of the Rule of Law, section four explores the interaction between democracy and the Rule of Law, section five refers to the challenges faced by the Rule of Law in a consolidated democracy, section six presents, as an examp...

La interacción entre derecho y religión como dos modos de regulación de la conducta humana es algo que parece inevitable, pese a las pretensiones de mutua independencia. El devenir histórico de sistemas monopolísticos (monista o dualista) de los poderes espiritual y temporal a sistemas pluralistas lleva a una laicidad estatal, y el objetivo ha de ser el respeto de los derechos fundamentales de la persona, incluso la libertad religiosa, con repercusión pública. Aunque el Estado muchas veces no ha sido capaz de articular ese equilibrio, solo en el mutuo reconocimiento es viable la interacción de hechos sociales relevantes.

A lo largo de este trabajo, sostendremos como hipótesis que la penetración del discurso de los enfoques de D & E, fue decisivo para que a fines de la década de los ochenta e inicios de los noventa, se comprendiese la relevancia económica de un marco legal general eficiente, entidades como Registros Públicos y del desarrollo de organismos como el INDECOPI, el OSIPTEL, el OSITRAN, el OSINERGMIN y la SUNASS. En ese sentido, se desarrollará a profundidad la temática referida al sello del razonamiento económico implícito y explicito y como este es abordado por los distintos enfoques dentro del D & E y el porqué en su conjunto debe ser considerado como un movimiento que como método de investigación e instrumento teórico a permitido renacer el interés por el estudio interdisciplinario del derecho y la legislación.