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Judicial Presentations on Prisons
This article seeks to evaluate the intervention of the Constitutional Court in Colombian jails, with special emphasis on the issue of prison overcrowding, to establish progress, limitations and challenges of this intervention.
Read MoreThe End of the Law of Justice and Peace? The law of 975 to 2006 after the Failure of the Constitutional Court
The research laid forth in this book addresses the practical implications of The Law 975 of 2006 on the process of peace negotiations between the Colombian government and paramilitary groups. Due to the fact that the sentence from the Constitutional Court, which is responsible for the revisions of the law, was announced after this book was at the press, the book reflects partial look since the complete text of the ruling is still not known. Recognizing this constraint, the investigation is based on press releases, journals and analysis from Non-Governmental Organizations.
Read MoreReferees and Television
Analyzing the role of the referees in soccer matches, this text defends the utilization of television as tool for reducing the errors committed and diminishing the risk that soccer becomes a game of chance.
Read MoreTardiness, without social reproach
Según una investigación publicada el jueves de la semana pasada en EL TIEMPO, el 60 por ciento de los concejales de la ciudad de Bogotá llega tarde a las sesiones y solo un poco más de la mitad permanece durante los debates. Algunos, incluso, no solo llegan tarde, sino que se van antes de tiempo.…
Read MoreLessions from Jamundí
Danilo Rojas, of DeJuSticia, indicates five possible consequences of the massacre of Jamundí, and the various lessons for our democracy.
Read MoreThe love of one’s country
The author shows how the concept of “patria” or native country, can be utilized as a political symbol that evokes an excessive plan, different from constitutionalism, that looks not only to transform citizens’ behaviour, but also its souls and beliefs.
Read MoreWhat remains of the party system?
As a result of the elections, the two traditional parties will continue to dominate Colombian politics. A permanent transformation of the party system should come from the left.
Read MoreGlobalization-Non-governmental Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives (David Clark,ed. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2006)
Processes of economic globalization underway since the early 1970s pose new regulatory dilemmas. The mismatch between global economic processes, on the one hand, and national regulations, on the other, creates what Sassen has aptly called a “regulatory fracture”, stemming from the fact that ?economic processes diverge from the model for which extant regulations were designed? (Sassen 1998: 155). Debates about how to deal with such a regulatory fracture are today at the forefront of law and society research on globalization and have given rise to a host of regulatory experiments around the world. A growing number of sociolegal analyses and institutional experiments emphasize non-governmental approaches to regulation, that is, forms of economic and political coordination in which private organizations ?from corporations to civic associations? take on regulatory tasks that were hitherto reserved to the state. From this perspective, forms of global governance have the potential to solve some of the problems faced by national governments in the global economy.
Read MoreA State without Justices
Mauricio García Villegas thinks without a doubt, that the police is essential in the task of territory recovery. But is it sufficient?
Read MoreAn uncertain future
We hope that the international situation will be favorable, that the mafias receive the weight of justice and that the control agencies worry more about complying with the Constitution than about favoring Uribe.
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