General considerations on Chilean Antarctic Territory regulations (1939-2011)

This article is aimed make a broad analysis of legal rules related to Antarctica enacted in Chile between 1939 and 2011. It considers both law –and administrative acts of domestic origin– and international treaties –and reception in the domestic legal order of the rules produced by the organs of the...

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Main Author: Ferrada Walker, Luis Valentín
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Spanish
Published: Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Chile 2012
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Online Access:https://revistas.uchile.cl/index.php/RDPU/article/view/30929
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Summary:This article is aimed make a broad analysis of legal rules related to Antarctica enacted in Chile between 1939 and 2011. It considers both law –and administrative acts of domestic origin– and international treaties –and reception in the domestic legal order of the rules produced by the organs of the Antarctic Treaty System. As a result, a “state of affairs” is stablished in order to tend to the systematization and optimization of Chilean Antarctic Territory regulations, necessary both for the achievement of the objectives that the State of Chile has set about to achieve and the purposes of the Antarctic Treaty System. En el presente artículo se efectúa un análisis general de las normas jurídicas referidas a la Antártica promulgadas en Chile entre 1939 y 2011. Se consideran tanto las leyes y actos administrativos de origen nacional como los tratados internacionales y la recepción en el ordenamiento jurídico interno de las normas producidas por los órganos del Sistema del Tratado Antártico. Como resultado, se establece un “estado de la cuestión” a fin de propender a la sistematización y optimización de la normativa chilena antártica, necesaria tanto para el logro de los objetivos que el Estado de Chile se ha planteado al respecto como para la consecución de los propósitos del Sistema del Tratado Antártico.