INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... 1889 I. THE REALIST CONCEPTION OF LAW .................................................. 1891 II. THE ROLE OF DOCTRINE AND THE RULE OF LAW ........................... 1898 III. DOCTRINAL CATEGORIES, REALISTICALLY RECONSTRUCTED ........... 1905 IV. A CASE STUDY: ON PROPERTY AND PROPERTY INSTITUTI...

The Constitution of Ecuador recognizes the principles social security. These constitute an evaluation and hermeneutic tool for different security systems. In these principles, we find universality; principle universality is instrument equality, it broke class scheme in which Ecuador, since 2008, universal coverage has been extended to unpaid household workers. man object analyzes from a legal a...

Paradoxes of individual coherence (e.g., the preface paradox for individual judgment) and group coherence (e.g., the doctrinal paradox for judgment aggregation) typically presuppose that deductive consistency is a coherence requirement for both individual and group judgment. In this paper, we introduce a new coherence requirement for (individual) full belief, and we explain how this new approac...

THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE is a proposed agenda, not a developed theological treatise. It is concerned exclusively with work to be done, not with work already accomplished. It is an attempt to establish a context, to present a beginning to a doctrinal conversation that will occupy the Church for a long time. It should therefore be read as an attempt to look at a whole set of contemporary issues whic...

E conomists typically view their discipline as a progressive science in which superior new ideas relentlessly supplant inferior old ones in a Darwinian struggle toward the truth. Thus it came as something of a shock when Milton Friedman challenged this belief in the May 1975 issue of the American Economic Review. In response to the question “What have we learned in the past 25 years?”, Friedman...