Author: Domingo A. Lovera Parmo

The avarice of lawyers seems to be a widely-shared belief. Not in vain has the so-called legal profession received too many critiques around the world, being as they are often...

The Chilean Constitutional Court held, in a 5-4 decision, that the emergency contraceptive pill (the so-called “morning after pill”) was contrary to the right to life recognized in the Chilean...

The Chilean legal system lacks stare decisis. According to article 3 of the Chilean Civil Code, legal decisions have binding force only on the specific cases for which they were...