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This article states that human rights have evolved from an state’s responsibility focused on the safekeeping of the public sphere to a preoccupation to safeguard the private space. This essay develops the discussion about the relevance of an international regulation to certify of given entrepreneurial processes and how they could help stability and international peace. It points out that many private enterprises and companies related to security issues, make relevant investments in fragile governability or in undergoing armed conflict zones, and the fact that their intervention may foster or diminish conflicts. The war scenarios present the most complex problems due to the general complexity of observing the International Humanitarian Law, as well as for the difficulty to repair damages due to private companies actions. Finally the article summarize the juridical discussion around “mercenarism” and the dilemma set by the regulation or the prohibition of the private military and security enterprises.

This article describes that the military right comes from the constitutional regulation of the use of force. This regulation imposes a particular duty of obedience to the military, that is guarded at the same time, by the military disciplinary right and the military penal code. It informs that although military justice is not forbidden by the international right of the Human Rights, is considered as a regulation of restricted application. Also details, the valid requisites presented by the international right for the military justice, and how jurisprudence of the Inter American system had influenced the reform of the military penal jurisdiction in the continent.

This article delimits the borders de of the associative crime, by using as the main study case the Tarantino’s film “Pulp Fiction” (1994). By means of the analysis and cinematographic interpretation, the main characteristics that shape the “organized crime” are described and illustrated: the existence of a solid organization, the criminal profitable ends and the employment of violence as a criminal method.