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Comparative Constitutional Protection of Contracts in the United States and Chile


Dante Figueroa


American University - Washington College of Law; Chilean Bar Association; New York State Bar Association (NYSBA); D.C. Bar Association; American Bar Association; Georgetown University Law Center

Arturo Fermandois


Pontifical Catholic University of Chile - Law Faculty

July 18, 2012

American Society of International Law's International Legal Research Informer, p. 5, Summer 2012

Abstract:     
The article highlights both the historical and the current symmetry between the legal foundations of the American doctrine of the “impairment of contracts,” and the principle of intangibilidad de los contratos (inviolability of contracts) under Chilean law. It advances the thesis that even though they proceed from two different juridical traditions, the American from the common law tradition, and the Chilean from the Roman-Canon-civil law traditions, both the American and Chilean systems share important similarities in jurisprudential developments regarding the protection of the sanctity of contracts, and by extension in the protection of the right to private property.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 35

Keywords: Contracts, impairment of contracts, comparative law, Chile, right to property

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Date posted: July 18, 2012  

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Figueroa, Dante and Fermandois, Arturo , Comparative Constitutional Protection of Contracts in the United States and Chile (July 18, 2012). American Society of International Law's International Legal Research Informer, p. 5, Summer 2012. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2112318

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Dante Figueroa (Contact Author)
American University - Washington College of Law ( email )
HOME PAGE: http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/figueroa-hernand/
Chilean Bar Association
Chile
New York State Bar Association (NYSBA)
D.C. Bar Association
1101 K Street NW
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005
United States
American Bar Association
321 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60610
United States
Arturo Fermandois
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile - Law Faculty ( email )
Alameda 340
Casa Central
Santiago
Chile
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