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.

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 The increase in commerce, of capital flow, of merchandise and of people causes the birth of an unpublished cosmopolitan conscience of law.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.

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.

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.

It can be useful to observe the ties between the two most important news articles of the last two weeks: the spectacular rescue of the kidnapped people and the risky presidential reaction against the Supreme Court sentence in the case of Yidis.

The spectacular rescue of the 15 kidnapped that were under the power of the FARC is, in my judgement, not only a political blow and a forceful and harsh military action that has never before been infringed by the Army on a guerrilla group, it is also a good opportunity to achieve peace and national reconciliation.