Con el espíritu de los maestros ambulantes

"They came for her husband. The trucks arrived with a crash, the occupants came down screaming, their grandchildren played in the street, both ran scared. It was seven thirty in the afternoon. They were followed by at least six men. Others stayed outside, on duty. In the rustic interior courtyard, María Ordóñez could only hug the little ones. The only room with a door inside the house was the one below. The invaders tore her down. But there was no one behind. They seized a laptop, a tablet, a camera, two cell phones: the reporter's work tools. He slept on the top floor. The fatigue of two...

Obra compilada cuyo objetivo es reflexionar sobre la relación entre el derecho constitucional y la Constitución de 1917. En ella se abordan las aportaciones de los principales referentes en la materia: Emilio Rabasa, Miguel Lanz Duret, Manuel Herrera y Lasso, Felipe Tena Ramírez, Mario de la Cueva, Ignacio Burgoa, Jorge Carpizo y Antonio Martínez Báez, entre otros.

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing...

Alexander M. Bickel analiza la historia de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de los Estados Unidos. Relata un caso de segregación racial de un niño negro en una escuela de niños blancos que culminó con el establecimiento de la facultad de los tribunales para revisar los actos de los otros poderes del gobierno. Se presentan las principales discusiones que trajo consigo esta resolución, pasando por autores como James Bradley Thayer, Learned Hand, Herbert Wechsler, etc., así como la naturaleza de su instrumentación jurídica y política. La obra incita al cuestionamiento del poder que ejerce...