Eduardo Salvador Barcesat (born 21 January 1940) is an Argentine constitutional lawyer and defender of human rights.
Biography
He studied law in Buenos Aires. Between 1960 and 1962 he was assistant in the Chair of Philosophy of Law in charge of Dr. Lucas A. Gioja.
The lawyer Eduardo Barcesat denounced the Minister of Security for the alleged crimes of "violation of public official duties, secrecy and privacy." He helped those who were at risk of "high degree of insecurity." Barcesat, who work for ambitious website, still expects to be supported by the federal prosecutor in his role.
Eduardo's was also active in the case of mothers of Mayo Argentina to find their missing children. In April 2011 he was appointed director of the career of Advocacy at that university of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
Career
In May 1962 â at the age of 22 â he graduated as a lawyer, at the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires. In the same faculty, in 1967 he obtained a doctorate in Law and Social Sciences.
In 1965 he entered the teaching career as a second assistant in the Chair of Introduction to Law and Social Sciences, under the direction of Dr. Moisés Nilve.
In 1966 â after the Nightmares and fears, in which the OnganÃÂa dictatorship intervened and repressed the Argentine universities â resigned the teaching career.
In 1973 and 1974 â with the return of democracy after a string of military dictatorships â he was appointed assistant professor of Introduction to Law and Social Sciences, in the chair of Dr. Jorge L. Rébori, at the Faculty of Law of the University from Buenos Aires. In 1974 he was assistant professor of Philosophy of Law. That year he was separated from the teaching function by another intervention â the "Ivanissevich mission" â against the University of Buenos Aires.
In 1984 â with the return of democracy after the Argentine civic-military dictatorship (1976âÂÂ1983) â he was appointed Associate Professor of General Theory and Philosophy of Law (at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires).
In the eighties he was a professor of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Lomas de Zamora.
He has worked as an expert on Human Rights of the UNESCO.
He was a professor of Constitutional Law, in the Faculty of Law, of the National University of Lomas de Zamora (UNLZ).
He was a founding member and first secretary general of the American Association of Jurists. In 1994 he was a conventional national constituent and participated in the reform of the National Constitution. In 1997 he was appointed regular professor of General Theory and Philosophy of Law at the University of Buenos Aires. In March 2008 he was appointed titular professor of Constitutional Law in the Popular University of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. In April 2011, he was appointed director of the career of Advocacy at that university.
He is a full professor in the Department of General Theory and Philosophy of Law. Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Guarantees. School of Law, University of Buenos Aires.
On 1 February 2016, Eduardo Barcesat denounced the president Mauricio Macri and several ministers for the crimes of "violation of the duties of a public official" and "abuse of authority".
Research work done
- 1966: "Legal analysis of the institutional change operated on June 28, 1966", article in the magazine Cuadernos del Centro de Estudiantes de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales, No. 1.
- 1967: "The concept of responsibility in the Code of Military Justice", article in Critical Review of legislation and jurisprudence. # 1; year 1967.
- 1968: "Considerations on the validity of the mandates called" Laws of the Nation ", article in Revista Critique of legislation and jurisprudence , nú 5, year 1968.
- 1970: "Law and Social Change; article in the magazine Critique of legislation and jurisprudence , nú 7, Year 1970.
- 1970: "The causal relationship"; in Illegality and compensation . Buenos Aires: Jorge ÃÂlvarez, 1970.
- 1971: ëThe legitimacy of the National liberation processesû; article in the magazine Cuadernos de Cultura , number 38, 1971.
- 1972: "analysis of the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation on matters of Constitutional Rights and Guarantees"; article in the magazine Critique of legislation and jurisprudence; No. 8, 1972.
- 1972: "The jurisdictional control of the so-called political issues", article in Proceedings of the Second Franco-Latin American Days of Comparative Law . Buenos Aires, 1972.
- 1972: ëThe Peace Concept and the Movements of National Liberationû, in the magazine Review of Contemporary Law A.I.J.D. . Brussels (Belgium).
- 1973: ëPower and Lawû; article in the Revista del Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Nacional (CEREN) ; Santiago de Chile, 1973.
- 1973: ëSummary of the fundamental concepts of the Pure Theory of Law of Hans Kelsenû, article in the Publications Department of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, file 00514, year 1973.
- 1973: ëCritical analysis of fundamental legal conceptsû. Department of Publications of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, file number 00523; year 1973.
- 1973: ëMethodology and legal typologyû. Publications Department of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, file number 0052; year 1973.
- 1974: ëLegal Ideology and Social Transitionû; in Publications of the First Inter-American Congress on Legal Aspects of Economic Independence. Lima (Peru), 1974.
- 1975: ëProposals for the formulation of a juridical-political instance at the service of the process of national and social liberation of the Latin American peoplesû. Proceedings of the Second Inter-American Congress on Legal Aspects of Economic Independence ", Panama, Year 1975.
- "The legal doctrine of individual liberty", in the magazine El Derecho, 82-865.
- "The jurisdictional control of the so-called political questions", in "The Right", 84-785.
- 1978: ëThe structures of dependence and legal ideologyû; in Magazine of the Faculty of Law of the University of Cuzco , nú 15; year 1978.
- 1978: Prologue to the book: Marxism and law, by Jorge L. Rébori. Bogotá (Colombia): Editorial of the Third World, 1978.
- 1979: ëProposals for a materialistic conception of legal relationsû. Minutes of the Seminar 'Law and Society' of CLACSO. Buenos Aires, year 1979.
- 1981: "A portrait of the lawyer Teresa Alicia Israel"; in New Era , nú 8, year 1981.
- 1981: "Proposal of the International Convention on Guarantees of the Right to Life, to Freedom and to the Physical and Psychic Integrity of the Human Being". Publication of the International Colloquium on the policy of forced disappearance of people . Paris (France), 1981.
- 1982: "The legal idea of freedom -in view of the state of siege", in the magazine Comments , No. 12, year 1982.
- 1982: "From the ideology of guilt and punishment to the normative presuppositions of a non-sanctioning right"; in Communications , number 2 of the Institute of Legal Culture of the National University of La Plata, year 1982.
- 1982: "Be national, national security and institutional exceptionalism"; in ëThe ideology of national securityû. Buenos Aires: El Cid, 1982.
- 1983: Prologue to the book Prisionero polÃÂtico , by Carlos M. Zamorano. Buenos Aires: Center of Studies, 1983.
- 1984: "Recent reforms to the Code of Military Justice", in "The Observer," No. 19, 1984.
- 1984: ëSome reflections and theses on the role of the legal profession and the legal ideology in the Rule of Lawû, in Proceedings of the VI Congress of the Ibero-American Union of Lawyers and Bar Associations (UIBA), 1984.
- 1985: "Contributions to a theory of the transition from institutional exceptionality to the rule of law. Proposals for a juridico-political model of state and law for countries in process towards national and social liberation "(essay formulated with regard to the rupture of the ideology of" national security "); in ëInsecurity and denationalizationû, ed. Human rights; Buenos Aires, year 1985.
- 1985: "Process to State Terrorism", article of 7 May 1985 in the newspaper "Qué Pasa".
- 1985: "Marxism and Human Rights." Cuadernos de Cultura , new era, nú 2, year 1985.
- 1985: "Concerning the" order "of Human Rights"; in the magazine El Derecho , 15 September 1985.
- 1986: ëMethodology of political praxisû; in the magazine Nueva Era , December 1986.
- 1986: "The prescription of criminal action in the crimes of terrorism", article in the newspaper RÃÂo Negro , 15 October, 86.
- 1986: ëLegal defense of the rights to life and personal freedom in the Argentine military regimeû (pp. 141âÂÂ163); in CESOC, Academy of Christian Humanism. Santiago de Chile, 1986.
- 1987: "The official story of the end point and the due obedience", in "Military crisis, a country in due obedience". Buenos Aires: Antarco, 1987.
- 1987: "Problems of fundamental human rights in developing countries"; in the Second International Congress of the International Association of Constitutional Law . Freiburg (Federal Republic of Germany): University of Freiburg, year 1987.
- 1987: ëMisery of the Alfonsinist constitutional reformû. Buenos Aires: Committee of Propaganda of the Communist Party, 1987.
- 1987: "The difficult" invention "of due obedience"; in End of Century , number 1, year 1987.
- 1987: prologue to the work The disappeared lawyers . Buenos Aires: Commission of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared for Political Reasons, 1987.
- 1988: ëHuman Rightsû (4 trials); in End of Century , year 1988.
- 1988: ëThe mythological ghost of political issues not justiciableû, in the newspaper "Page / 12" (Buenos Aires), year 1988.
- 1988: ëThe persecuted Chilean politicians and the renewed doctrine of theë two demons û; in New SUR, year 1988.
- 1989: ëThe crime of Kidnapping of Identity and the Natural Familyû; in Magazine of the Commission of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared for Political Reasons, year 1989.
- 1989: "The two battles", "New SUR", year 1989.
- 1989: ëLa Tablada; repression and judicial battle û; New SUR , year 1989
- 1989: ëThe judicial process of La Tablada as a global essay of a future repressionû; in New SUR; year 1989.
- 1989: ëThe presidential pardon; last section of the general project of impunity û; New SUR, year 1989.
- 1989: "State of Siege and Law of Defense of the Nation"; New SUR, year 1989.
- 1989: "Examination of the convenience, opportunity and necessity of the announced Constitutional Reform", Magazine of the Commission of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared for Political Reasons; year 1989.
- 1989: ëThe other programû (2 essays), New SUR ; year 1989.
- 1990: "The new Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation; one step more in the increase of institutional exceptionality"; weekly Proposal , year 1990.
- 1990: ëThe rotten apple of the Upper Valley of the Black Riverû; New SUR ; year 1990.
- 1990: ëAnd we; where we are? Critical examination on the situation of socialism û; Bulletins of the Committee, Central of the Communist Party; year 1990.
- 1990: ëViolence and Revenge; a social disease û; New SUR , year 1990.
- 1990: "Examination of the impossibility of the Rule of Law in Argentina"; New SUR ; year 1990.
- 1990: ëHuman Rights and Socialism. Conjunction for the alternative proposal û; New SUR , year 1990.
- 1990: "Proposal, front and PC"; Weekly PROPOSAL, year 1990.
- 1990: "The future of Human Rights and Socialism"; New SUR , year 1990.
- 1990: "Legal repugnance to presidential pardon"; New SUR , year 1990.
- 1991: "Critical examination of the judicial process against the descamisados"; in the magazine Análisis , Paraná (province of Entre RÃÂos), 1991.
- 1991: ëReflections on war and peace, about the Middle East and the Persian Gulfû; Magazine of the Armenian Community in Argentina ; year 1991.
- 1991: ëThe" sacred "property right of the Fordû; weekly Proposal ; 1991
- 1991: ëHuman Rights; a retrospective of 25 years û; in weekly Accion , edition of the 25 years; year 1991.
- 1991: "Why not? Constitutional Reform and Human Rights ", in the magazine Margen Izquierdo ; May 1991.
- 1992: "Constitutional Reform or Institutional Trap?", In "Cuadernos de Marxismo", No. 1, year 1992.
- 1993: "Critical examination of the proposals contained in the end of history", from the political and social philosophy of Human Rights", in "'Notebooks of Marxism' ', special supplement, January 1993.
- 1993: Right to the right; democracy and liberation. Buenos Aires: End of Century , September 1993.
- 1993: "Socialism and Human Rights", article in the magazine Against Legem (Buenos Aires), year 1, number 2, October 1993.
- 1993: ëHow the National Constitution is reformedû, article in the magazine Acción . # 101; Oct. 1993.
- 1993: "Plebiscite and Constitutional Reform", article in the magazine Action , number 104, Nov. 1993.
- 1994: "Socialism; thinking and perspective"; compilation of the seminar. Rosario: Actuel Marx, July 1994.
- 1994: "Beauty and the Beast", article in the magazine Accion , September 1994.
- 1994: "Socialism and Human Rights. A joint construction", Rosario: Homo Sapiens, 1994.
- 1995: Balance of the constitutional reform . Buenos Aires: Publications of the Institute of Studies on Constitutional Law of the University of Belgrano, year 1995.
- ëDebate on the Constitutional Reformû; in Magazine of the Bar Association of La Plata ; year XXXIV, number 55.
- 1995: ëOn the future of Lawû, in the magazine "Derecho y Revés"; Year 1, number 0, Buenos Aires, 1995.
- 1995: "A year of the Constitutional Reform", in the "Magazine of the National Congress"; year 1995.
- 1995: ëOn the autonomy of the City of Buenos Airesû, in the magazine "El Derecho", 8 November 1995.
- 1996: "The external history of the truth and the judicial process", in "Periodico de las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo"; Year XIV, No. 130, May 1996, p. 12
- 1996: "May God protect us", in the newspaper Accion . 16 May 1996, p. 6
- 1996: ëJudicial pronouncementû, in magazine "Plenary"; AABA, May 1996, p. eleven.
- 1996: ëOn the autonomy of the city of Buenos Airesû; opinion column in the newspaper ÃÂmbito Financiero , 8-8-96.
- 1996: ëThe third senator for the city of Buenos Airesû. Bulletin of the Argentine League for the Rights of Man; August 1996.
- 1996: ëTransfer of 600 Courtsû. Plenary Magazine, Publication of the Association of Lawyers of Buenos Aires; December 1996.
- 1997: ëReview of the autonomy of the City of Buenos Airesû. Magazine of the Municipal Law Institute of the San Isidro Bar Association, February 1997.
- ëThe universe of art. 19 of the National Constitution û; article in the magazine El Derecho ; 170-1223;
- 1997: "State of fact". La Vuelta Magazine, number 0, March 1997.
- 1997: ëInterpretation of art. 19 of the National Constitution û; article in the magazine El Derecho , ed. 16 May 1997, p. 5.
- 1997: ëThe Left and Electionsû. Right and Wrong Magazine. Year II no. 3; September 1997.
- 1997: ëThe message of the remains ofë Che ûGuevaraû; in ëThe Bulletinû of the Argentine League for the Rights of Man; October 1997, p. 13
- 1997: "Jurisdictional protection of Human Rights"; article in the magazine Liber / Pueblo ; December 1997.
- 1998: ëThe Law is not born of forceû; La Nación , 4-2-98, p. 13
- 1998: ëThe Police is slave labor of the modelû; Report published in Fifth Power ; page. 3; October / November 1998.
- 1998: ëLawyers and Judicial Powerû; in the magazine Third Instance , November 1998.
- 1998: ëThe Universal Jurisdictionû; in Judicial News; 3 November 1998.
- 1999: "Rule of Law"; in the I Seminar of Critical Analysis of the Argentine Reality, 1984âÂÂ1999; in the newspaper Página / 12 (Buenos Aires); 10 December 1999.
- 2000: "Unreason in Justice"; in the newspaper Página / 12 (Buenos Aires); 21 April 2000
- 2000: "The inapplicability of the laws of final point and due obedience"; Weekly ëEL SOLû, province of Mendoza; ed. 11-5-00.
- 2000: "Exegesis of the ruling of Chamber II of the Federal Chamber on the laws of final point and due obedience"; article in the magazine of the American Association of Jurists; July 2000
- 2001: ëReconciliation? Magazine of the Popular University of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo; Buenos Aires; July 2000
- 2001: ëEthics and politicsû; supplement of the Popular University of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, in the newspaper Page / 12 (Buenos Aires), 2 March 2001.
- 2001: ëEthics and politicsû; supplement of the Popular University of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, in the newspaper Página / 12 (Buenos Aires), 9 February 2001
- 2001: "Justice, Power and Privileges"; in the magazine Locas, Cultura y UtopÃÂa ; Popular University of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo; # 3, June / July 2001; p. 32.
- 2001: ëTalking seriously about Human Rightsû, in the supplement of the Popular University of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, in the newspaper Page / 12 (Buenos Aires), 21 September 2001,.
- 2001: "Semblanza de Enrique E. MarÃÂ"; in the magazine Locas, Cultura y UtopÃÂa , from the Popular University of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo; # 4 August / October 2001; P. 34/35.
- 2001: ëJustice of the Misery and Misery of Justiceû. Magazine of the Buenos Aires Judicial Federation; September / October 2001; P. 17
- 2001: Chapter: Speak the protagonists, in ëMedia and Constitutional Reform in Argentinaû, of Mr. Eduardo Zukernik, presentation of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.- 13 December 2001.
- 2003: "On the laws of the end point and the due obedience"; article in the legal magazine La Ley ; ed. 14 April 2003.
- 2030: ëThe Problem of Truth in the Judicial Processû. Delivered for publication to the legal magazine La Ley , July 2003.
- 2003: ëThe concept of emergency. Contributions from a critical theory û. Delivered for publication to the La Ley publishing house (July 2003).
- 2003: ëNullity of the laws of due obedience and end pointû; Interview with Drs. Eduardo s. Barcesat and Daniel Sabsay. Rev. The Law , ed. 16 September 2003.
- 2003: ëThe problem of truth in the judicial processû; Law 2003.- D, 1331.
- 2003: ëThe concept of emergency in law. Contributions from a critical theory û; in Supplement Economic Emergency and Theory of Law; August 2003; The Law 2003â E, 1078.
- 2003: ëOn the laws ofë End point ûandë Due obedience û; The Law 2003â c; 1486
- 2004: ëFirst reflections on the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation regarding legitimization of pesificationû; Note to failure, The Law on line.
- 2004: ëCritical review of the judicial process and failure of the AMIAû; in the magazine Convergencia ; AugustâÂÂSeptember 2004; year 4, No. 15; P. 12
- 2005: ëReflections on external debt, Human Rights and Emergency, in collaboration with Roberto J. Boico, La Ley 2005-C; 329
- 2005: ëReflections on the language and validity of the lawû; The Law 2005-B, 940.
- 2005: ëCritical examination of law 25,990û; The Law 2005â B, 1002.
- 2005: ëThe problem of Human Rights in the XXI Century; The challenges of the New World Order û; Rev. Plenario, Association of Lawyers of Buenos Aires, New Series, Year II, Nú 2 2005.
- 2005: "An exemplary ruling" Note to ruling, Constitutional supplement to the Law 25 October 2005, p. 51
- 2006: Bibliographic note on the book "Critical Manual of Human Rights", by Juan Carlos Wlasik, Ed. La Ley; Buenos Aires, 2006. Law 8 March 2006, p. 3.
- 2006: ëThirty years after the coupû, in Lawyers; article in the magazine of the Bar Association No. 89; February / March 2006; P. 18
- 2006: "An unnecessary and harmful law" in "The Law"; 14 June 2006: _
- 2006: ëReform of the Military Justice Code systemû, article in the magazine La Ley , 12 October 2006.
- 2007: ëThe nullity of the pardons regarding perpetrators and participants in crimes against humanityû; Note to failure: The Law; 20 July 2007.
- 2007: ëThe metamorphosis of politicsû, www.espacioconvergencia.com.ar; 20 October 2007, Internet.
- 2007: ëCondemned to failureû; in Siglo XXIII magazine; in ed. 9 November 2007.
- 2009: ëState and Law in the crisisû; in the magazine Cultural Bitácora , number 25, June 2009; p. 11 / 12.
- 2009: ëThe subject of Law: The human being or heritage?û; The Law , ed. 2 July 2009, Supplement Actuality, p. one.
- 2009: ëTenure for drug consumptionû; The Law, Special Supplement, "Arriola, Sebastián and others"; 25 August 2009, p. 7/9.
- 2009: "The new international financial architecture. The international law of human rights. The economic principle of self-sufficiency and the right to self-determination"; The Law , supplement Actualidad. Ed. 10 December 2009, p. 1/3
- 2010: Notes to judgments (patriotic background of the Bicentennial and Redrado); the law ed. 1, 10 February; P. 2 and 3.
- 2010: ëThe words of the Constitutionû (About the average null penalty â of reform of law 26.180 of tax on the check); The Law , ed. 22, 10 April
- 2010: "Supreme Court, its role and doctrine"; article in the magazine Convergencia; MayâÂÂJune 2010, p. 12/14.
- 2010: Prologue to the book of Dr. Raúl Zaffaroni, "Crimes of mass". Buenos Aires: Popular University of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, August 2010.
- 2010: Note to ruling: "Judicial protection of the rights to life and health against the persecutory power of crimes by the National State"; Supplement "Judicial Doctrine", Newspaper "The Law"; Nú: 38, 22, 10 October. p. 2577.
- 2010: Column of opinion with reference to the case ëSosaû, Supplement Actuality Daily Law; ed. 12, 10 October
- 2010: Note to ruling: "The reasonable period in the precautionary measures"; Diario La Ley, Ed. 20, 10 October.
- 2010: "The full judiciability of the Economic Social and Cultural Rights," The book of the Bicentennial of the May Revolution. Ed. Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires, year 2010; P. 11 and ss.
- 2011: ëExamination of the DNU No. 441/11û, in "The Law", ed. 26 Apr 2011, p. 1 and s.s.
- 2011: ëThe provisions on currency settlementû; in The Law , 'Opinion Column'; ed. 9-9-11, pags 1 and s.s.
- 2012: ëYPF. Examination of legality of the expropriatory measure, Reflections on the BITs and the ICSID under the notion of "legal security"; in La Ley , supplement ëActualidadû, ed. 10, 12 May, pages. 1âÂÂ4; in collaboration with Roberto J. Boico.
- 2012: ëPress Paper, Democratization and Citizenship Actû, by Eduardo S. Barcesat and Roberto J. Boico, Public Law Magazine , number 1; P. 3 and 5, Buenos Aires, 2012.
- 2012: ëA response to Lorenzettiû, article of 10 August 2012 in the newspaper Página / 12 (Buenos Aires).
- 2012: "On arbitration and private international law", editorial of 24 August 2012 in the newspaper Page 12 .
Private life
He is married, and has Jewish ancestors. In several places it is mentioned that Eduardo Barcesat is Jewish:
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