Issue-Rule of Law
Unlikely dialogues
Human beings tend to chat and debate with those who think and feel similarly. These conversations between peers are pleasant but are often unproductive because they reinforce our prejudices.
Read MoreThe moralist mind in 2018
Recognizing the visceral roots of political opinions should lead to less unequivocal, less moralistic judgments, on the opposite 50%.
Read MoreThe invisible city
Citizen culture, which is a very important part of what a city is, is an invisible form of capital that cannot be sold on the stock market, but that is worth a lot.
Read MoreInabilities in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace
The Senate’s decision to prohibit people who have litigated human rights cases against the State from becoming JEP (Special Jurisdiction for Peace) magistrates is grossly unconstitutional.
Read MoreThe policy of love
In Venezuela, a law was passed imposing harsh penalties for those who promote hatred and fascism. Pretending to eradicate hate and impose love is a typical feature of tyranny.
Read MoreIn defense of the small
The gregarious energies of contemporary sapiens are increasingly concentrated in small, self-absorbed and selfish groups.
Read MoreDefending Santa Rita
The weight of state neglect fell on the 40 year-old building in the Santa Rita Market, until the community’s claims bore fruit in June 2011, when the Mayor of Cartagena socialized the designs for its renovation and left in a 12,000 million pesos allocation for its construction. However, today the work is a monument to district inefficiency.
Read MorePeace without State
What happened in Tumaco in recent weeks is proof that violence not only depends on peace agreements, but also on strengthening the local state.
Read MoreA normal country
During the decades that the armed conflict lasted, much was written about violence and its causes, to the point that a group of experts on this subject emerged (unique in the world) under the name of violentologists. Perhaps today we must do something similar for corruption.
Read MoreThe art of disagreement
Opening to disagreement entails exposing yourself to opposing ideas and contemplating the possibility of being persuaded. It does not mean that it is comfortable, but it is necessary to build a society in peace.
Read MoreESCR-Net and Dejusticia Defend Sawhoyamaxa Community Human Rights Advocate’s Innocence
The organizations presented an amicus in Paraguay to protect the freedom of expression of the lawyer Julia Cabello.
Read MoreForum in Bogotá about the Challenges of Judicial Administration
Carolina Villadiego will intervene on behalf of Dejusticia.
Read MoreColombian Police Ought to Clarify Their Relationship with “Hacking Team”
According to investigations, the Colombian Police allegedly contracted Hacking Team in order to gain access to citizens’ digital information.
Read MorePrior Consultation Can Prevent Environmental Damage in Colombia and for Humanity: Daniel Cerqueira
Interview with DPLF’s expert that participated in the 25th Anniversary Seminar of the ILO Convention 169 in Bogotá.
Read MoreThe United States Shows that It Is Possible to Build a Path towards Equality
In a pluralist democracy it is discriminatory for a person to be deprived of a right due to their sexual orientation. Today the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage.
Read MoreRodrigo Upriminy Intervenes in Public Audience about the #BalanceOfPowers Reform
This past 20th of March 2015, Rodrigo Uprimny participated in the Public Audience in Congress discussing the essential aspects of the Balance of Powers Reform.
Read MoreIntervention in the law suit against the Police Code regarding informal vendors
Dejusticia conducted an intervention within the constitutionality control process of the Law 1801 of 2016 (Police Code), in particular against article 140, which establishes police measures that affect informal vendors.
Read MoreCésar Rodríguez Garavito at the Constitutional Court’s Constitutional Conference on Lands
Talk “The New Frontiers of Constitutional Justice,” in the Participation and Environment panel.
Read MoreWill Santos be the Savior of Land Restitution?
In his most recent opinion piece called “President Santos, Please Save Land Restitution”, columnist León Valencia strongly criticizes some of the main policies of the Santos administration.
Read MoreDid Petro´s Legal Novel Finally End?
One of the most popular arguments used to defend the national government´s position on the situation in Bogota, in particular the legal battle of Mayor Petro, is that the City was tired and needed an end to all the uncertainty.
Read MoreNullity action against the administrative act through which the House of Representatives chose Dr. Volmar Perez as Ombudsman on August 19, 2008.
Dejusticia, the Human Corporation Regional Center for Human Rights and Gender Justice, the Women National Network, and the Antigone Corporation for Social Development, Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, filed a nullity action against the administrative act through which the House of Representatives chose Dr. Volmar Perez as Ombudsman, arguing that the triad formed by the national government did not respect the law of equal participation of women (Law 581 of 2000) which requires that the lists of candidates for positions such as the Ombudsman include at least one woman.
Read MoreIntervention relating to conscientious objection to military service
The intervention was presented regarding conscientious objection as grounds for permanent exclusion for military service, and argues that article 27 of Law 48 of 1993 is unconstitutional.
Read MoreIntervention same-sex couples
Dejustica intertervened at the request of the Constitutional Court in order to opine regarding whether scientific evidence demonstrates that children are affected by growing up in families with same sex parents.
Read MoreElectoral Code
Public action of unconstitutionality against articles 10 and 102 in their entirety and partially against articles 12, 26, 32, 40, 47, 75, 79, 85, 101, 149 & 157 of Decree 2241 of 1986 (Colombian Electoral Code).
Read MoreLimits to Freedom of Expression: Patriotic Union
Dejusticia filed an amicus in the tutela action against Dr. Fabio Echeverri Correa, manager of the re-election campaign for Presidential Candidate Álvaro Uribe Vélez, for violating the fundamental rights of honor and good name, physical integrity and life.
Read MoreRespect for the Law of Quotas
Dejusticia challenges the election of Dr. Nilson Pinilla Pinilla as new Judge of the Constitutional Court, due to violations of the Quotas Law and the restriction on voting for Dr. Pinilla by judges Dr. Pinilla had appointed.
Read MoreBetween the prominence and the routine: A socio-legal analysis of Colombian justice (1980-2005)
This chapter analyzes two apparently paradoxical aspects of Colombian judicial evolution: its protagonism and its enormous political visibility, on the one hand, and its routinization and loss of social relevance, on the other.
Read MoreThe Kaleidoscope of Justices in Colombia
Critical Studies of Law and the Theory of Judicial Decision
This introductory study analyzes one of the most influential contemporary debates about the interpretation of rights and judicial decision, initiated between theorists Herbert Hart and Ronald Dworkin.
Read MoreTheory of Right and Judicial Decision
This introductory study analyzes one of the most influential contemporary debates on the interpretation of rights and judicial decisions, begun between the theories of Herbert Hart and Ronald Dworkin.
Read MoreRights and Society in Latin America
In this book, a group of prominent lawyers and social scientists from diverse Latin American countries strike up a dialogue and offer innovative and rigorous answers on these and other questions.
Read MoreFreedom of Press and Fundamental Human Rights: An Analysis of the Constitutional System of Law in Colombia (1992 – 2005)
This book offers an exploration of the collision of freedom of press and human rights. The authors examine the scope of freedom of press in Colombia, asking what law should prevail when freedom of information is faced by needs for confidentiality.
Read MoreCommunity Radios
This suit against the Ministry of Communications aruges that the Miistry should have granted a community radio one or more stations in the capital of the country.
Read MoreSocial Market Economy and Free Trade Agreements in Colombia
This book tries to create an open plural and interdisciplinary debate about Free Trade Agreements.
Read MoreNew Tendencies in the Direction of Judicial Process: Formation Model
This book’s objective is to complete a comprehensive presentation of the role of a judge as “director” or “manager” during the judicial process.
Read MoreThe Symbolic Efficacy of the Law
The book explores the symbolic efficacy of legal norms.
Read MoreColombian Political Constitution
The book contains the text of the Colombian political Constitution, commented edition, including the relevant doctrine and jurisprudence on each of the articles. The original texts upon which Legis has done successive updates were elaborated by Catalina Botero.
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