The article analyzes the Decree Law 19900 about contracts between foreign firms with the Peruvian government.

The objective of this work is to systematize, at the level of the structure of the legal order, the administrative and governmental acts realized by the executive power, which has become more confused with the public administration, which is only one of its parts. We are interested in treating the problem from the legal point of view, which implies focusing in the legal forms that the actions of officials and rulers assume. In this sense, we deal basically with existing problems in decrees and resolutions of different kinds, and the possible solution lines in the constitutional plane as in the legislative.

"Con motivo de cumplir 30 años, el Instituto de Estudios Peruanos decidió organizar una reunión dedicada a analizar los cambios económicos, sociales, políticos y culturales que el Perú ha experimentado en ese lapso; y las posibilidades existentes para impulsar la cohesión social y el desarrollo democrático. La reunión se realizó el 11 y 12 de agosto de 1994 y participaron veintidós ponentes y comentaristas, además del público que siguió y compartió el debate, cuyas contribuciones se publican en este libro." - Introducción