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Law 20345/2009 entitles participants of a Securities Settlement System to fulfill their obligations to provide collateral through a title transfer collateral arrangement over financial instruments, unknown under the Chilean Civil Code. It is proposed here to characterize this figure as a fiduciary ownership. In addition, this collateral is irreversible, it gives rise to an autonomous patrimony dedicated to a special purpose and can be executed extrajudicially. All of these features and the very existence of this title transfer collateral arrangement have the purpose of mitigating the systemic risk that is inherent to Securities Settlement Systems.

This article seeks to address cases of concurrence of risks in road traffic through the objective imputation theory. Concurrence of risks cases are those in which death or injuries occur as a consequence not only of the author’s infringement of a duty of care, but also of an inadequate behavior displayed by the victim, which contributes causally to the harmful result. The article shows that to correctly solve this type of cases, the determining requisite of the objective imputation theory is the materialization of the risk in the result, and that the faulty behavior of the victim does not necessarily exclude the attribution of the typified result to the author.

This article examines the regulation of stop and search proceedings in Chile, as contained in Article 85 of the Criminal Procedure Code and in Article 12 of Law 20.931, both in its current formulation and in the proposal for legal reform presented in 2019 by President Sebastián Piñera, in order to analyse their conformity with the international obligations binding on Chile and included in several human rights treaties. The article explains that the current regulation and the proposal for extension of police powers amount to a violation of the guarantees of personal liberty and freedom of movement, privacy and non-discrimination, as well as the specific guarantees that protect the rights of children and adolescents.

This work encompasses the question of access to information, in relation to Chilean judge’s affiliations and interests. Three kinds of information needs are presented, which are also arguments to sustain the point that the information in question would be of public interest, and therefore be regulated in a specific way, thus becoming an obligation of active transparency. Furthermore, the current active regulation is explained, and its inconsistencies and problems are laid out. Finally, the work discusses the necessity of regulation in this area, be it legal or through the Supreme Court.

The article analyzes the notions about the ends of the Chilean civil process, to then criticize them, holding that they do not satisfy the current mandates of International Fundamental Rights. At the same time, a critique is made to the current chilean civil process, exposing its deficits, to then remark that it maintains nineteenth-century social structures, being the civil process a tool for its prevalence. Finally, a proposal of redefinition of the ends of civil justice is done on the basis of certain cultural and social considerations that underlie the reality of the process.

This paper is consists of two parts. The first part seeks to introduce the problem of legal determination of punishability in general. The second part explains how criminal law serves as a general-abstract enabling basis to configure the declaration of culpability and the imposition of punishment in particular cases and for specific recipients.

This work aims to briefly expose the general aspects of forced disappearance and women as a group in vulnerable situations. This way also, it seeks to analyze the standards that there must fulfill the investigation of this crime, the due diligence and impartiality with which it is necessary to act when the involved ones are women, of conformity to the prescribed for the Convention of Belém do Pará and the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human rights. Finally, it will study the right to the truth and the obligation to investigate as reparation measures for this type of case.

El autor plantea que el acto de disposición patrimonial y el perjuicio como elementos objetivos del delito de estafa, no pueden separarse de una forma que los distancie de forma espacio-temporal, constituyendo un solo evento, que configura el momento consumativo del delito. Analizando el (acto dispositivo que verifica el) perjuicio desde la perspectiva de elemento integrante del tipo de injusto. Se analizan las concepciones del patrimonio existentes en nuestro medio, a fin de adoptar una de ellas para determinar el perjuicio como resultado típico de lesión del bien jurídico patrimonio. Resulta además procedente en este contexto, realizar un análisis sobre el carácter que debe revestir el perjuicio a título de resultado típico, y el contenido del patrimonio protegido por la norma prohibitiva. Se parte de un análisis del propio texto de los artículos 467 y 468 del Código Penal, para concluir que (el acto-de-disposición-perjudicial en) el delito de estafa, a efectos de su consumación no difiere de otros delitos de resultado existiendo una identidad entre el momento en que se realiza el acto de disposición y el perjuicio patrimonial.

In this paper, I propose a different way of understanding the expression political theology. I argue that political theology is a useful expression for it contributes to the discussion on democracy and political representation crisis. My motivation is the third part of Fernando Atria’s book La forma del derecho. Discussing this text, I point out the compatibility of Atria’s proposal with that of others thinkers who have considered Carl Schmitt’s work, and contractualism. Finally, I argue that the meaning of political theology has to be associated with other concepts, in particular with laicism, legal system and recognition. Only in this way, it is useful for our community life.

This paper’s purpose is to offer some considerations about the new felony offense created in Chile, which mainly seeks to protect the antitrust regulation. Thus we offer a brief exposition of substantive aspects, a description of the administrative protection, and also the typical structure of the new crime adding some procedural aspects to emphasize.