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Pension or Illusion?
The constitutionalist, Mauricio García Villegas, analyzes the reaction of economists after the recent opinion by the Constitutional Court about the system of pension transactions and he concludes that they only value legal security when it benefits the businessmen. Forum with the readers.
Read MoreMulticulturalism and Indigenous Rights
After reflecting on multiculturalism and constitutional law in Latin America, the author does a systematic study of the most important opinions of the Colombian Constitutional Court on the rights of the indigenous people, with the aim of showing the most reasonable criteria found in such opinions that can be used to solve conflicts in a multicultural state.
Read MorePreamble to the Political Constitution
The Preambles to the Latin American Constitutions (Madrid 2001). In this article, the author looks to achieve an approximation of the preamble to the letter from 1991 from a neo-constitutional perspective. The article is composed of two separate but complementary parts. In the first part, the author studies the origin of the preamble in the National Constitutional Assembly. In the second part, the author analyzes the contents, importance and value of the preamble and the most relevant jurisprudence in the Constitutional Court in respect to each of its parts.
Read MoreSociology of law
Some of the classic articles published in Law and Society up until 1990 are translated and published in this book. A preliminary study about the movement of Law and Society in USA is presented as the first chapter of the book
Read MorePolitical Constitution of Colombia
This work contains the text of the Political Constitution of Colombia, mentioning the latest updates of the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court and the relevant doctrine of each one of its rules. It includes a supplement that contains the connection of the legislative acts that have modified the Constitution, a synopsis of the statutory and natural laws, and text of the rules that regulate constitutional processes and the mechanisms that guarantee fundamental rights. Catlina Botero Marino elaborates on the original text about which legislations have affected successive updates.
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