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 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
Read MoreWhen hygiene violates fundamental rights
Arguing hygiene, women are seeing their right to conjugal visits in prisons limited.
Read MorePetro or the last chance of the left
From the government of Gustavo Petro in Bogota depends, not only a city in crisis, but the future of the left.
Read MoreExpanding military justice?
Is it convenient or not to extend military jurisdiction, this is, the competence of the military justice?
Read MorePeople with Disabilities in Colombia
Characterization paper of the population with disabilities in Colombia of the Convention on the Rights of Persona with Disabilities of the UN.
Read MoreTaking Brazil seriously
Sao Paulo. The air breathed in Brazil seems to blow towards the future. In the stores, the 20 million people who came out of poverty during the government of Lula hustle each other to buy their first refrigerator or washing machine.
Read MoreAbortion: first round
The criminalization of abortion under any circumstances would have serious and little known legal consequences, would contradict international law, would violate fundamental rights of women and is being defended based on lies. A reasoned review of the debate, as announced, will continue in the coming days.
Read MoreThe Colombian Constitutional Court’s Response to the Accountability Challenge: the Case of the Displaced Persons
Colombia is experiencing a huge deficit of decent work
The study on decent work in Colombia reveals the decline of the country in labor issues and proposes to reform public policy. This is the conclusion of the investigation performed by Dejusticia for the Special Prosecutor for Labour and Social Security Affairs.
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