Lawyers and Justice
The State has greater interest in regulating certain professions over others. That depends on how much it affects public interest.
Read MoreLaw of Fallow Lands: Great Business through the Conquest of the Last Agricultural Frontier
The sociologist Alfedro Molano, one of the few scholars who studied peasant migrations in the national geography, tells many stories about the rural countryside that are, in fact, a single one.
Read MoreThe Reason Does Matter
The traditional division between work and roles assigned in rural communities have made it so that women historically have had little to no access to property or land.
Read MoreAnimals and the Left
I have never understood why the solidarity and compassion based on equality that inspires the Left usually stops short when the victims are not people but rather animals.
Read MoreHuman Rights Protection: From Without to Beyond Borders
If violations don’t care about borders, the tools to address violations should not be limited by them.
Read MoreProperty and Authority in Lands Without Lights
How is it possible for communities such as these to be so rich in land, and yet lack the most basic of infrastructure?
Read MoreEbola, Tragedy or Injustice?
Ebola was discovered in 1976 and since then has had a score of outbreaks, always with high death rates.
Read MoreOne Step towards Indigenous Citizenship
Sometimes crucial change occurs silently. While the rest of the country debated the minutia of the balance of powers reform, the Government paid its two-decade old debt to indigenous communities: the promise of the 1991 Constitution to grant them the right to administer their territories and organize their affairs with greater autonomy. Without much ceremony, a decree with an unforgettable number (1953) took this past October 7th a memorable step towards the restoration of full citizenship rights to indigenous peoples.
Read MoreFour News Headlines and One Problem
Looking over the news this week I paused to read four ostensibly unrelated news stories, each one discussing events in different parts of the world.
Read MoreJudging the Bad Man
If the debate about the “Super Court” that would judge judges and high-level bureaucrats is so terrible, it is because it encapsulates some of the most complex problems of constitutional design.
Read MoreWhat is Uribe afraid of?
Bodyguards did not stop the student who approached the former President Alvaro Uribe to deliver a paper. It is an order that calls him to testify in the civil case against the Drummond mining power.
Read MoreThe Indians of Vargas Llosa
WINNING A NOBEL PRIZE IS DYING a bit: the peaks to conquer are depleted and one acquires the beatific aura of perfection that is only recognized to the deceased.
Read MoreViviane Morales: the good and the bad things.
At last we have a new Attorney General. What should we expect?
Read MoreWikiLeaks: the place without limits?
The long and interesting entry of Lucas Ospina, the neighbor blogger, as well as thousands of articles written on the subject, force me to confess my internal contradiction regarding the status of hero or thief of the brain of WikiLeaks, particularly in respect of the means and limits to the release of data by the Australian and his team.
Read MoreThe challenges of the new Attorney General
Viviane Morales will not have much time to celebrate her election as Attorney General since the challenges she will have to face are varied and difficult. It is impossible to analyze them all in one column, reason why I will highlight the four challenges that seem most important.
Read More“Extreme blackmail” in the Western world
Annika Dalén, researcher of Dejusticia, talks about the burqa ban and the “extreme blackmail” in the Western world due to the threats France faces for banning the use of the burka in public.
Read MoreDrug policy and prison situation in Colombia
This paper demonstrates how drug policy in the country tended to a progressive hardening along the twentieth century and, notwithstanding, failed to be effective in reducing supply and in combating organized crime networks dedicated to trafficking. In contrast, they have had a major impact on the prison system and in the lives of thousands of people who have lost their liberty due to drug-related crimes.
Read MoreThe Supreme Court: sheep or wolf?
URIBE’S SUPPORT TO THE ASYLUM of his intelligence director rounded the image of the Supreme Court that he and his followers had wanted to sell the country: that of a partisan court, composed of judges whose robes are just the sheepskin covering ferocious wolf politicians.
Read MoreEarly childhood education: law and investment
There are few investments as just and economically effective as public expenditure to provide an early and qualified education to children from poor and discriminated families.
Read MoreTaking seriously the women victims of conflict
Colombian women have been disproportionately affected by armed conflict. In this week of non-violence against women, it is important to analyze how the state should advance through legislation and public policies to eradicate violence against them.
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