GLOBALIZATION, ECONOMICAL CRISIS, CONSEQUENTIALISM AND APLICATION OF ECONOMICAL, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

This work has for objective establishing to which degree judicial decisions regarding economical, social and cultural rights are influenced by their economical consequences. The article sustains that economic globalization is an important variable related to the diverse national economical crises the occidental world has witnessed. In this way, these economical crises end up influencing the judicial decisions regarding economical, social and cultural rights, leading to a judicial rationing of social expenses, affecting these rights in the name of a supposed maximization of social welfare. Lastly, the article offers the argument that there really is a possible space for judicial consequentialism. However, from the perspective of theoretical law, the possible and needed judicial consequentialism is the one who leads judicial decisions towards the consequences that reaffirm the axiological-normative fundaments of the juridical system and not, fundamentally, the economical effects.