Four News Headlines and One Problem
By Mauricio García Villegas |
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 more Lots of Mines, Few Owners, and Mutual Favors
By Sergio Chaparro Hernández |
In October 2013, there were 9,703 active mining titles in all of Colombia, spread among 5,797 natural and legal persons.
Read more Judging the Bad Man
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
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 more The Power of Transparency
By Tatiana Andia Rey |
In order to make transparency a reality, we not only need the government's political will but also citizens' demand and pressure.
Read more Articulating through Disassemblage
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The unfortunate process of the justice reform from two years ago leaves us with a fundamental lesson: if a reform proposal seeks to change many parts of the Constitution but lacks a clear unifying principle, it creates an institutionally risky situation, at least for the following three reasons.
Read more Progressiveness and Gradualness: The Convoluted Principles of Restitution
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The Law 1488 of 2011 contains two important and closely related principles that refer to the law's implementation.
Read more Planetary Life
By Mauricio García Villegas |
We as human beings are raised with the idea of being intellectually and morally superior to the rest of living beings.
Read more The Ministry for Gender Equality that Never Materialized
By Annika Dalén |
With the restructuring of the presidential cabinet, Santos once again shows little compromise with gender equality issues.
Read more The Ebola Outbreak: Beyond the Direct Victims
By Laura Lyons Cerón |
The speed of the spread of Ebola and the catastrophic effects that it is leaving in West Africa are evidence of the tardy and weak response of the international community
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