Let’s Discuss Judicial Independence
There are many reports regarding the attacks against judicial independence in the region. But one difficulty that presents itself in discussions on this topic is that everything is lumped into the topic, limiting the analysis about the vulnerabilties that each country has, but also the possibility of debating these seriously.
Read MoreOmbudsman Be Decent: Quit
There is enough evidence and arguments for Jorge Armando Otálora to resign from his post as ombudsman. But for that one needs dignity.
Read More#OtáloraQuit?
Dejusticia researchers explain why the Ombudsman should resign from his post.
Read MoreCan Separate Ever Be Equal?
What then is the virtue of challenging separation if the treatment received is equal?
Read MoreSantos Plebiscite or Popular Consultation for Peace?
Is the popular vote mechanism for the peace accord approved by Congress a plebiscite on Santos, that is, a plebiscite of support or rejection of President Santos?
Read MoreThe Mutations of Peace
The next indispensable step in the peace process is the definition of concentration zones.
Read MoreThe Modern Tyrant’s Manual
Tyranny is not what it used to be.
Read MoreInequality in Transportation
Transmilenio, the rapid bus transit system of Bogotá, has transformed transportation for almost everyone, but these changes have been more important for the middle class than for low-income folks.
Read MoreChildren of Equality
Last November, the Constitutional Court ruled on a case that justly and silently revolutionized the protections for the families of same-sex couples.
Read MoreU.S. Gun Control Policy Is Not Only Domestic
The gun control debate in the U.S. fails to take into account the transnational effects of its gun policies through illicit firearms trafficking.
Read MoreThe new face of the Constitutional Court
Last week the Senate elected, with a comfortable and announced majority, the lawyer Alberto Rojas as magistrate of the Constitutional Court for an eight-year period, in other words, until the beginning of 2021. With 61 votes, Rojas defeated the expert in criminal law María Lucía Zamora (who obtained 19 votes) and Alejandro Linares (supported by seven senators).
Read MoreOur weather injustice
Yesterday, World Earth Day, we listened again about data that we prefer to forget during the rest of the year. If we keep consuming and contaminating as we are right now, the planet’s weather can increase four degrees in the next three decades, which can put at risk of extinction half of the species.
Read MoreRegarding the Legal Framework for Peace: how much should one judge?
The debate between the public prosecutor and the attorney general illustrates two antagonistic positions regarding the selection criteria that should establish regulations for a statutory law to define the concrete application of transitional justice once a peace agreement has been signed.
Read MoreElectoral organization and democracy
Democratic strengthening in our countries requires an independent electoral organization with technical capacity that can guarantee transparency and legitimacy of elections.
Read MorePlagiarism in the Congress and the Lleras 3.0 Law
If Congress approves the Lleras 3.0 Law, which the Government plans to pass, the first ones to go to jail would be the same members of Congress, because many of their bills are plagiarism from experts’ studies, foreign legislations and even Internet websites.
Read MoreA defense of the Peace Framework
Last year Congress passed the constitutional reform known as Legal Framework for Peace. This year, in the light of the dialogues in Havana, the Constitutional Court will have to define whether the possibility to drop, in some cases, research and legal sanction of crimes committed within the armed conflict, as the reform contemplated, implies or not a substitution of the Constitution of 1991.
Read MoreRites, forms and substance
¿How to achieve an adequate equilibrium between the form and substance of religious, social or legal rites?
Read MoreJustice and sluts
Women sexually assaulted are not guilty for the violence committed against them, instead it is their attacker.
Read MoreBarranquilla, white porcelain
A fact and case makes you think about racial discrimination in Barranquilla, now that the city turns 200 years.
Read MoreThe Court’s gift to clientelism
How the Constitutional Court did not help to the transparency in the election of its new member.
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