En los orígenes de la ciencia procesal española. Francisco Beceña: trayectoria académica, inquietudes docentes y aportación doctrinal

Integrado dentro de una línea investigadora que ha venido desarrollando el autor en varias publicaciones dirigidas a la reconstrucción de la evolución de la doctrina procesal española a lo largo del siglo XIX y la primera mitad del siglo XX, este trabajo se sumerge en un período decisivo de la misma, el de las primeras décadas de la pasada centuria, que está caracterizado por el nacimiento, largo tiempo demorado respecto a otros países europeos, de una disciplina jurídica revestida, por fin, de un carácter científico y de una autonomía, que le garantizan el reconocimiento de un espacio propio en las enseñanzas jurídicas. Un avance de enorme trascendencia que es abordado a partir de un estudio exhaustivo del itinerario vital de un personaje, Francisco Beceña, menos conocido que otros ilustres procesalistas españoles, pero cuya contribución constituye una clave indispensable en la realización de este logro. El acercamiento a esta figura fundamental se realiza desde una triple perspectiva: la centrada en su trayectoria académica, con especial detenimiento en su etapa de formación, en las oposiciones a cátedra a las que concurrió y en el desempeño de las diversos destinos que ocupó en la universidad, sin olvidar su participación en otras destacadas actividades vinculadas a la magistratura; la volcada en el detenido análisis de una producción científica de extraordinaria riqueza y modernidad; y la orientada a la valoración de sus novedosos planteamientos sobre la docencia del derecho procesal, vertidos tanto en su obra como en la de algunos de sus discípulos.This article is part of a research effort that the author has been developing through several publications aimed at the reconstruction of Spanish procedural law doctrines as they evolved throughout the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. It focuses on a critical period of these conceptual changes: that of the first years of the last century, characterized by the birth of a legal discipline, much belated in Spain if compared to other European countries, which was finally autonomous and based on scientific principles, and which guaranteed its place within law teaching. This advance, of enormous importance, is studied through an exhaustive analysis of the life of Francisco Beceña, lesser-known than other illustrious Spanish procedural law scholars, but whose contribution constituted an essential step toward accomplishing this achievement. The study of this fundamental figure is undertaken from three perspectives: firstly, that based on his academic career, with a special emphasis on his education, the occasions in which he was competing for a faculty chair, as well as on the different positions he held in the university, without forgetting his participation in other important activities related to the magistracy; secondly, that based on a scrupulous analysis of his scientific production, extraordinarily rich and modern; and finally, that based on the appraisal of his original approach to procedural law teaching, found in his own writings and those of his pupils

The Right of Troncalidad in Castilian Inheritance Law in the High Middle Ages

In order to solve the problem that arose when organizing the succession of those who died without issue and without having indicated to whom his/her assets should be left through a testamentary provision, historically different solutions were adopted, which can be separated into two broad models. One, followed, for example, in Roman Justinian law, seeking to preserve its unity, opted for giving the inheritance of the deceased to the closest relative, in the order of kinship or of affectivity. The other, preferred to guarantee that each of the assets was returned to the respective hereditary bloodline from which it came, paternal or maternal, even at the cost of breaking the homogeneity of the gross estate left by the deceased. In a society such as the Castilian one in the High Middle Ages, in which the family group had an extraordinarily important function in the social order and in which its strength, cohesion and continuity depended, to a large extent, on the wealth of its real estate and the conservation of this through the generations, within the kinship circle, the second model was better adapted to achieving this aim. This explains the existence of the so-called "right of troncalidad", which can be defined as a succession principle applicable only in ab intestato succession of s/he who dies without legitimate issue, in which those assets owned by the deceased, having obtained them through inheritance, should be awarded exclusively to the relatives from the original bloodline. This paper will analyze the different documentary and regulatory manifestations that show the validity of this principle, its content and scope

La tolerancia del intolerante en la teoría de John Rawls

1. Introducción: el papel del principio de tolerancia dentro de la teoría de la justicia de John Rawls. 2. El petfil del intolerante de acuerdo con el concepto rawlsiano de consenso solapante. 3. El principio general de tolerancia. 4. La extensión del principio de tolerancia a individuos o grupos intolerantes. 5. Consideración final.Publicad

Multiscale modeling of viscoelastic fluids: an up-to-date CONNFFESSIT

The present communication introduces an up-to-date version of the CONNFFESSIT method in the field of micro-macro simulations of non-Newtonian fluids. The ‘macro’ section employs a semi-Lagrangian method in order to reduce the Navier-Stokes equations to a Stokes-like subproblem. Linear systems arising from the finite element formulation are solved via the ‘Incomplete Cholesky Conjugate Gradient’ iterative algorithm, wherein the sparsity pattern of the matrices is taking into account. As to the ‘micro’ part, the stochastic formulation simplifies the Fokker-Planck equations in the configuration space to stochastic differential equations for the internal degrees of freedom of the particles (‘dumbbells’) conveying the rheological information of the kinetic model, their integration being accomplished by means of a semi-implicit, PredictorCorrector algorithm. The ‘micro-macro’ coupling involves the polymer stress tensor, which is computed through a mixed ‘Finite Element / Natural Element’ method.An extended, search-and-locate method for unstructured meshes and non-connected domains has been implemented. The robustness and efficiency of the method is highlighted on a benchmark problem (10:1 planar contraction)

Creer en Darwin: sobre las relaciones entre marco científico e interpretación filosófica.

John Dewey¿s Experience and Nature (1925) is an attempt to draw the metaphysical consequences of modern developments in the natural sciences, particularly Darwinism. Recently, Richard Rorty has criticized Dewey¿s metaphysical stance, which he proposes to replace by a more straightforward compromise with historicism. This paper argues that Rorty misreads the meaning of historicism, and fails to make sense of the naturalistic attitude expressed in Dewey¿s metaphysics

Stochastic semi-Lagrangian micro–macro calculations of liquid crystalline solutions in complex flows

A general method for the simulation of complex flows of liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) using a stochastic semi-Lagrangian micro–macro method is introduced. The macroscopic part uses a spatial-temporal second order accurate semi-Lagrangian algorithm, where ideas from the finite element and natural element methods are mixed in order to compute average quantities. The microscopic part employs a stochastic interpretation of the Doi–Hess LCP model, which is discretized with a second order Richardson extrapolated Euler–Maruyama scheme. The new method is validated and tested using the benchmark problem of flow between rotating eccentric cylinders. In a decoupled analysis, a discussion on the sensibility of the scalar order parameter to the macroscopic flow is offered. For the coupled situation, the proposed method predicts disclinations at certain regions of the geometry, as well as an accentuated abatement of the flow as the strength of the micro–macro interaction increases. Further examples are provided at different Peclet and concentration numbers to gain insight on the behavior of complex flows of LCPs in the eccentric cylinder geometry. The generality and robustness of the method, as well as its accurate prediction of LCP behavior under complex flows are main features of the implementatio

Significado y valor: la crítica pragmatista al emotivismo

Pragmatism and Logical Positivism constitute different traditions in philosophy, though for a period of time they shared some views and had intellectual and social interests in common. John Dewey, in particular, collaborated to the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science promoted by Carnap, Neurath, and other positivists. In this relationship, the topic of values were the main issue. For the positivist party, emotivism represented the 'official doctrine' regarding ethical (or, in general, evaluative) sentences; whereas for Dewey value judgements had full, genuine empirical meaning. Here we examine Dewey's crticism of emotivism as represented by its best known theorist, Charles L. Stevenson, trying to assess the real scope of the differences between positivist and pragmatist traditions