The ideal of the certainty in law: the skin and the heart of law

The doubt about certainty like an absolute value in law and as an ideal full in legal system (argument about impossibility) is a controversial fact in contemporary legal theory. In this text I examine some contemporary doctrines about the classic understanding (in critical sense) of this ideal. I have selected the most representative doctrines: doctrine about "open texture of Law" (H.L.A. Hart), starting point in this discussion; doctrine about "Il Diritto mite" (G. Zagrebelsky), from the continental European legal tradition at present; and doctrine about "vagueness in Law" (T.A.O. Endicott), this doctrine is the most recent, from the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition. Finally, in Conclusions, I analyze if this doubt (argument about impossibility) contaminates (in some sense) to the concept of law or to the characteristics that describe law in the contemporary Constitutional State

Del Estado-nación de Derecho al Estado de Derecho postnacional. Análisis de la tesis de L. Ferrajoli sobre la desnacionalización de la teoría de los derechos

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Dudas e incertidumbres sobre los Derechos culturales

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Sobre la indeterminación del derecho y la ley constitucional. El caso del término «nacionalidades» como concepto jurídico indeterminado

SUMARIO: Planteamiento: 1. Notas acerca de la indeterminación del Derecho y el operador jurídico. 2. En torno a la indeterminación de la Ley Constitiucional y el término jurídico «nacionalidades»Publicad

El derecho a la identidad cultural: Criterios de fundamentación

El derecho a la identidad cultural es un derecho controvertido en nuestras sociedades contemporáneas. La afirmación de este derecho supone replantear algunas de las nociones del Estado de Derecho y de la teoría de los derechos, para poder dar cabida a las cuestiones de la identidad. En relación a lo cual, actualmente, autores como P. Häberle hablan de la “cultura” como cuarto elemento del Estado Constitucional. Esta visión contradice la perspectiva que pregona la teoría clásica del Estado, basada en la Staatsnation, que reduce los elementos configuradores del Estado a los tradicionales de territorio, población y poder. Con esas premisas, desde este texto, se abordan un conjunto de criterios que son susceptibles de fundamentar el derecho a la identidad cultural, tanto desde el punto de vista moral (fundamentación moral: vinculada a la dignidad humana) como desde la perspectiva estrictamente normativa (justificación jurídica: como derecho normativo de libertad y derecho normativo de igualdad).The right to cultural identity is a controversial right within modern-day societies. Affirming this right entails rethinking a number of concepts concerning the Constitutional State and the theory of rights in order to find a place for questions of identity. In this regard, current authors such as P. Häberle speak of “culture” as the fourth element of the Constitutional State. This view opposes the perspective that espouses the classical theory of State, based on the Staatsnation, which reduces the elements that make up the State to the traditional aspects of territory, population and power. With these premises, this paper addresses a series of criteria that may provide the foundation of the right to cultural identity, both from a moral point of view (moral foundation: linked to human dignity) and from a strictly legal perspective (legal justification: as a legal right to freedom and a legal right to equality)

La gestión jurídica de la inmigración irregular: una zona entre medias de la legalidad y la ilegalidad

A menudo en el Estado Constitucional existe una regulación contradictoria de los inmigrantes en situación meramente irregular, dado que en este tema confluye la implementación legal de prestaciones básicas “universales” con políticas “nacionales” de inmigración. Desde el punto de vista del Derecho surge la siguiente cuestión: ¿cómo calificar a los miles o millones de personas extranjeras que siendo habitantes estables del Estado de Derecho no se encuentran del todo en una situación de legalidad pero tampoco de manifiesta ilegalidad? Si los inmigrantes irregulares no son claramente legales pero tampoco terminantemente ilegales, ¿cuál es la consideración que hace de ellos el Derecho?Programa Consolider "El tiempo de los derechos" (HURI-AGE

A Framework for Topological Music Analysis (TMA)

In the present article we describe and discuss a framework for applying different topological data analysis (TDA) techniques to a music fragment given as a score in traditional Western notation. We first consider different sets of points in Euclidean spaces of different dimensions that correspond to musical events in the score, and obtain their persistent homology features. Then we introduce two families of simplicial complexes that can be associated to chord sequences, and calculate their main homological descriptors. These complexes lead us to the definition of dynamical systems modeling harmonic progressions. Finally, we show the results of applying the described methods to the analysis and stylistic comparison of fragments from three Brandenburg Concertos by J.S. Bach and two Graffiti by Mexican composer Armando Luna

Wind Power Cogeneration to Reduce Peak Electricity Demand in Mexican States Along the Gulf of Mexico

The Energetic Transition Law in Mexico has established that in the next years, the country has to produce at least 35% of its energy from clean sources in 2024. Based on this, a proposal in this study is the cogeneration between the principal thermal power plants along the Mexican states of the Gulf of Mexico with modeled wind farms near to these thermal plants with the objective to reduce peak electricity demand. These microscale models were done with hourly MERRA-2 data that included wind speed, wind direction, temperature, and atmospheric pressure with records from 1980–2018 and taking into account roughness, orography, and climatology of the site. Wind speed daily profile for each model was compared to electricity demand trajectory, and it was seen that wind speed has a peak at the same time. The amount of power delivered to the electric grid with this cogeneration in Rio Bravo and Altamira (Northeast region) is 2657.02 MW and for Tuxpan and Dos Bocas from the Eastern region is 3196.18 MW. This implies a reduction at the peak demand. In the Northeast region, the power demand at the peak is 8000 MW, and for Eastern region 7200 MW. If wind farms and thermal power plants work at the same time in Northeast and Eastern regions, the amount of power delivered by other sources of energy at this moment will be 5342.98 MW and 4003.82 MW, respectively