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The heroes of Bavaria: A questionable commercial break
My reproach against this advertising, according to which working and rural “heroes” deserve a beer at the end of the day, is not a moral reproach but rather an argument of public politics.
Read MoreThe necessity of public debate
Helena Alviar and Isabel Cristina Jaramillo propose more participation of civil society in the election of judges to the Constitutional Court.
Read MoreInternal democracy of the parties?
Juan Fernando Jaramillo, member of Dejusticia and professor at the National University, expresses that in spite of the 2003 political reform, little has advanced in the internal democratization of the Colombian political parties.
Read MoreHear the Victims
Maria Paula Saffon, of DeJuSticia, maintains that the recently discovered events that have occurred in the Law Courts should serve as a lesson to listen to the victims rather than stigmatize them.
Read MoreSedition and political slants
To give the paramilitary a character of political delinquents, in which various sectors close to the government insist, is to continue with an obliging attitude.
Read MoreThe Sedition of the President
Rodrigo Uprimny, director of Dejusticia, emphasizes the weaknesses and the risks of the governmental attack on the Supreme Court for its failure on paramilitary and political crime.
Read MoreThe “social guarantee” of rights: toward a culture alive with the respect to human rights
There are affirmations that by their precision they are converted into common places. Such it occurs precisely with the famous phrase of the German lawyer Claus Roxin when he affirms (thus, among signs of exclamation) that “The law of criminal process is a seismograph of the Constitution of the State!” (Roxin 2000, 10). This expressed affirmation, with more than precision, is an idea that all forms already announced for Beccaria relating to the proportionality between crimes and sentences: “if there was a universal and exact scale of crimes and sentences, we would have a probable and common measure of the degrees of tyranny and of liberty, of the depth of humanity or the malice of the diverse nations” (Beccaria 1990, 59). According to Beccaria, therefore, the states where such proportionality does exist will be humane and free states; the disproportionate, on the contrary would show tyranny and malice.
Read More¡Ave Javier!
In his last column, the distinguished writer and lawyer Javier Tamayo continues being stubborn in offering erroneous interpretation of my book “The Right of Judges”. I would not dare argue with such a loved friend and legalist if it were not for the fact that his affirmations, this time, are frankly unacceptable. In this opportunity Javier accuses me of a serious sin: the essential point consists of affirming that in Colombia there exists a theory, to which he calls a ‘new right’ and that their basic nucleus consists of maintaing a marked aversion by the law.
Read MoreSaramago and his ranting
Danilo Rojas, professor at the National University and founding member of Dejusticia, returns on the creed of “saramágico” about democracy
Read MoreJustice In and Out of the Courtroom: the search for a sucessful dynamic
The historical case study explores the search for justice amidst armed conflict and authoritative regimes. The author discusses the need for laws to protect the individual as well as the collective rights in order to arrive at justice. Comparing countries transitioning from war to peace and from dictatorship to democracy, the investigation evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of various mechanisms to support the search for the truth and prosecute those responsible.
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