A Basket Full of Strangers
Can the average Colombian consumer understand the information provided on food products?
Read MoreVictims’ Law: Challenges for Holistic Reparations
Although there has been progress in the victims registry and in basic care, there is still much to do in the realm of institutional design and coordination, security guarantees for the claimers, and providing reparations that can truly repair our social fabric.
Read MoreCarlos Gaviria: Our Socrates
Carlos Gaviria was for many Colombians a great judge and politician of the democratic left, who distinguished himself by his intelligence, his renovative vision, and his perfect ethical behavior. And of course, he was all that.
Read MoreCarlos Gaviria, in Memóriam
When I studied law in Medellin, what I liked was philosophy, or more specifically, legal philosophy.
Read More“Territorial” Justice for the Post-Conflict?
The Government and Congress ought to take seriously the territorial emphasis of post-conflict justice as it will largely affect whether or not we have a long-lasting peace.
Read MoreThe Uruguayan Formula for the Americas
Critics and defenders agree on two topics: the OAS should prioritize human rights and democracy in its work. This requires the difficult balancing act between technical verification and promotion of political dialogue. Precisely what the situations in Mexico and Venezuela need.
Read MoreMuzzling humor in the Ecuadorean Revolution
In Ecuador, Rafael Correa’s government muzzles critique and attacks satirists in an increasingly anti-democratic environment.
Read MoreJustice, Politics, and Corporativism
Any judicial reform in Colombia ought to not only protect but also deepen our judicial independece so that it can be democratic and not corporative.
Read MoreIsagen
A decade ago, when my grandfather was 20 year old, Colombia had trains, a national postal system, a public health system, and a national telecommunications company; prestigious higher education was almost exclusively in the hands of the state, public services were provided by state-run companies, and there weren’t tolls on the highways because the state had built them.
Read MoreRevolutionary Reforms
Reforms are less impassioned than revolutions. To exclaim from a microphone “Everyone get out!” generates more interest than a detailed proposal on how to reform the judiciary.
Read MoreMapiripán and the guilt of the State
Some people compensated by the ruling of the Inter-American Court for the slaughter of Mapiripán turned out not to be victims.
Read MoreThe pending task of students
The challenges of the student mobilization with the withdrawal of the bill on education reform.
Read MoreWomen in elections
The poor results of women in the recent elections are not simply a problem of them, but a matter of democracy.
Read MoreMonitoring report of the UN Resolution 1325 in Colombia
Report prepared by the Working Group of Resolution 1325 in Colombia. Comprised of Women National Network (member of The Global Network of Women Peace Builders), Colombian Women Initiative for Peace (IMP), DeJuSticia, League of Displaced Women, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Limpal) National Conference of Afro-Colombian Organizations (CNOA).
Read MoreFrom the student kiss-ins to the new policy
Those who think the student protests are a youth improvisation, or do not have to do with the wave of dissent that extends from Santiago to New York, Cairo or Madrid are wrong.
Read MoreThe reform to the military criminal law
On Tuesday, the Plenary of the Senate approved in second debate the article of the constitutional reform of justice which determines that all actions of the Armed Forces will be judged by military courts.
Read MoreThe silence of the poet
The voluntary silence of a poet can sometimes be more expressive than his verses.
Read MoreConstitutional Court and the right to petition
What is the effect of the Constitutional Court ruling on the right to request governmental information?
Read MoreVegetables and bicicles: unhealthy?
For citizens of the Colombian capital, the answer to this question may be “yes” according to some studies of the Universidad Nacional.
Read MoreChapter 7 of “Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice”
Globalizing Intellectual Property Rights: The Politics of Law and Public Health. Chapter 7
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