Santos’ slyness
JUAN MANUEL SANTOS SAYS that the cradle of his campaign in which someone imitates the voice of President Uribe, calling to vote for him, is nothing else than “pure sly.”
Read MoreDoubt and political honesty
People who never hesitate produce me distrust. Thats why I like Nietzsche’s aphorism that says, “its not doubt but certainty what makes people crazy.”
Read MoreColombia, land of lawyers
This transcendental legal profession has been largely unregulated and, in addition, poorly regulated. How much should it be intervened?
Read MoreWith an evil face
Cesare Lombroso, an Italian criminal lawyer of the nineteenth century, was famous for his theory of “born criminal.”
Read MoreCatalina Botero: elected Special Rapporteur for the Freedom of Expression – OAS
Catalina Botero, auxiliary magistrate of the Constitutional Court was elected special rapporteur for the Freedom of Expression, from the OAS.
Read MoreThe March and Our Asymmetric Morale
The large march of July 20th for the freedom of all the kidnapped people generated mixed feelings within me, very similar to my feelings provoked by the protest last February 4th against the FARC. And because of this, even at the risk of repeating myself, I feel obliged to reiterate my position in this theme, mentioned before in another column I wrote on February 2nd in Semana.com.
Read MoreThe march of July 20th
“Are you going to march on Sunday?” a colleague in Medellín asked me this week. “Yes, of course”, I answered. “Oh! I am not so convinced” he responded and justified his decision with these words: “I went to march when the first demonstration against the kidnapping was organized; but I feel that this time with the liberation of Ingrid, the march is going to reduce to a political act of Government endorsement and I do not want to be part of the chorus of religious, chauvinistic praises and lackey that is being formed in this country because of the success of the Democratic Security politics.”
Read MoreMarbury v. Madison in China
When in the last column I invited the readers to give me ideas, various suggestions about the importance of comparative worker’s rights themes and for that I decided to begin on this occasion. Various other themes were proposed about the current legal state of Colombia, and I hope to be able to address this topic little by little. In any case, I continue to be open to new suggestions.
Read MoreWho can help with the ETB line?
This article is written out of eagerness because it touches César to call on the Company of Telephones of Bogotá (ETB) to ask for a line. Like you and so many other victims, know that for this the remainder of the day is needed.
Read MoreMemories of two Fifteen agers
The Constitution of 1991 shows in its 15 years that it is more beautiful that that of 1886. The professor Diego López Medina explains why.
Read MoreEnvy
There are seven mortal sins- lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride- but almost all have fallen in oversight. Thus, for example, in a survey published a couple years ago, the English responded that the only one of those sins that deserved to continue to be on the list was greed.
Read MoreWhat is the function of Contemporary Comparative Rights?
Comparative rights are a discipline that, in its more contemporary reincarnation, was born with the Congress of Paris in the year 1900. The lawyers of that time (where Salleiles and Lambert had an indisputable leadership position) understood for the first time the intense phenomenon of commercial and financial globalization that had become evident at that time. The increase in commerce, of capital flow, of merchandise and of people causes the birth of an unpublished cosmopolitan conscience of law. The transatlantic steamboats offered, for the first time, the possibility of large quantities of persons travelling in a relatively short time between the old and new world.
Read MoreThe Judge as the Last Artisan
Those that come to supply charges in the high courts should take into account that the greater demand for the function of serving justice is in the control of a genuine judicial artisan; that is, they have the job of shaping the legal materials that their collaborators supply to them.
Read MoreLaissez faire and pizzas: Inequalities in the economic system
In the zeal to defend free enterprise at times they commit mistakes and injustices: there are occasions in which to protect the protection of free enterprise, socially anti-economic results are produced.
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