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This investigation has the purpose of showing that given the fragmentation of classic multilateralism in the context of international law of trade and politics, an emerging minilateralism that provides international relations with a new and fair context, is juridically and morally acceptable as long as human dignity is deemed both a value and a source of law. By means of a dogmatic and hermeneutic methodology, and once the features of the tension between multilateralism and minilateralism, the arguments defending a good nationalism and the connection of these notions with a study of the theory of public goods in the context of international friendship that states that they are objectively good on the basis of some approaches of a classic (platonic) theory of justice and the use of some tools of law and economics have been presented, it is discovered that States and their representatives continuously engage in calculations in order to obtain and preserve what they consider good and beneficial, and it is concluded that a balance between minilateralism and multilateralism can be achieved as long as human dignity is considered both a source and value of the law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the context of a research project focused on the study of the effectiveness of international law, the purpose of this article is to put forward a form of interpretation of treaties supplementing the one set forth in Articles 31 to 33 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969). In order to accomplish this goal, the article puts forward a working hypothesis that questions the strength of both contractualism and originalism to explain whether treaties are just or not, and, under the assumption that the realm of the law actually coincides with the realm of politics, states that the process of interpretation and construction of the international legal rule shall entail filling with meaning the definitions contained in the treaty (which are not static but rather dynamic) but as per the experience of the States and in accordance to principles laid out by natural reason. By resorting to a hermeneutical method, the author concludes that a new form of interpreting treaties can be proposed that is directly related to how the international norm is lived and that questions both contractualism and originalism as their ultimate foundation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the universe of intellectuals and Colombian thinkers, along with Rufino José Cuervo, Félix Restrepo, S.J., Marco Fidel Suárez, Miguel Antonio Caro, Alberto Lleras Camargo and more recently, professors and jurists such as Rafael Nieto Navia and Hugo Palacios Mejía, the name of one of the most important Colombian philosophers and thinkers appears: Nicolás Gómez Dávila. His contribution to juridical sciences from the philosophical point of view is without question remarkable. With his particular technique of writing by using "escolios" (annotations) in composing in-depth axiomatic, synthetic and analytical pieces of amazing clarity regarding among other topics what law is and means, or in other words what "laws ought to be like," a profound wisdom and scholarship can be seen and discovered. With this essay (a revision-type essay) we present several paraphrases of the "escolios" (annotations) created by Nicolás Gómez Dávila, one of the most notable Colombian philosophers; hence, his viewpoints and our analytical paraphrases of pivotal concepts of juridical science such as State, Constitution, Laws, Will, Law, Ethics, Democracy, Patriotism, etc., are presented and analyzed, to arrive at and support a conclusion-thesis we have presented on other occasions: the effective law and effective laws are those that are customary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969 (CV) represents one of its most complex sections from the legal interpretation standpoint. The question this Note seeks to answer is the following one: why do States ultimately behave as they do when formulating reservations and accepting or objecting (to) them? In trying to answer this question, we suggest that the International Law Commission (ILC) may be benefitted from behavioral economics approaches, thereby reducing the negative impacts that the current legal reservations regime represents vis-à-vis public international law. This review Note is the result of an ongoing research project on contemporary international law and puts forth a working hypothesis by which we state that the current reservations legal regime is both complex and weak, and therefore, that the ILC could take into account some findings of behavioral economics for the purpose of harmonizing legal interpretations dealing with reservations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]