EMIGRACION and PRACTICE of FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS in LATIN AMERICA: EMIGRATION and FREEDOM in RELATION to RESIDENCE* Allan R
EMIGRACION AND PRACTICE OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN LATIN AMERICA: EMIGRATION AND FREEDOM IN RELATION TO RESIDENCE* Allan R. Brewer-Carías Professor, Central University of Venezuela; Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Vice President, International Academy of Comparative Law, The Hague It is really a privileged to be able to participate in the 2008 Summer Course of High Qualification organized by Professor Andrea Romano, Dean of the Law School of the University of Messina, in Montalbano Elicona, Sicily. My thanks to him for the unique opportunity to participate in one of his distinguishable efforts to gather students and scholars from different countries to study, with a comparative approach, subjects of constitu- tional law, like this on the “Enunciation and practice of fundamental rights: Emigration and Freedom in relation to Residence.” It is also a privilege to have the opportunity to be, for such purpose, in a unique and notable place for constitutional lawyers, like the medieval village of Montalbano Elicona, in a setting dominated by the splendid Castle origi- nally built by Frederick II of Swabia (1209-1250). This King of Sicily has been considered as the founding father of the Modern Absolute State or the Administrative centralized State, after issuing in 1231, the Constitu- tions of Melfi, considered to be the first code of law designated to organize a centralized the State, regulating in 255 clauses and in three books, all aspects of public law, judicial procedure, and feudal, private, and criminal law. This Liber Augustalis, was intended to be applicable to all * COURSE MATERIALS, for use of the Students of the International Summer School 2008, Università degli Studi di Messina, Virginia Commonwealth University, Universidad de Córdoba, Montalbano Elicona, Sicily, July 2008.
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