What to Do with the Guardianship against Sentences?
Guardianship against Sentences is at the center of the current legal and political debate, not only because it worsens the collisions between the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court, since the first one has the opportunity to revise the Supreme Court rulings, but also because of the Judicial Reform proposed by the government. Those in favor of the abolishment of the guardianship against sentences propose the implementation of and extraordinary resort against the arbitrary rulings.
Read MoreThe Conflict of the Colombian high courts around the guardianship against sentences
The action of guardianship is respected as the most important innovation introduced by the Constitution of 1991. This article treats the existing conflict among the high courts around the guardianship against sentences, known as the “collision of trains”.
Read MoreThe Judicial Protection of Social Rights by the Colombian Constitutional Court: Cases and Debates
An important question with which theorists of law and democracy are grappling is whether the Colombian Constitutional Courts should be reasonable for enforcing social rights. This article addresses the discussion of who should be the protector of social and welfare rights, exploring multiple perspectives on this complex issue.
Read MoreReport or judicial sentences?
Rodrigo Uprimny, Director of DeJuSticia, argues that to require the media to give judicial proof of its accusations is a form of censorship.
Read MorePeace without State
Mauricio García Villegas supports that the process with the paramilitary is not as they show it to be.
Read MorePolitics and the Judicial Branch
Being the bearer of bad news, Danilo Rojas of Dejusticia, anticipates the reform of justice that will surely be undertook by the new Congress.
Read MoreConsensus and Conflict: Government and Opposition
Mauricio García Villegas analyzes how a healthy democracy fortifies the social consensus and polarizes political conflicts. In Colombia, the armed conflict has impeded a strong consensus be formed and that a patronage system of the politics has created more of a business than a confrontation of programs. But this is changing; Mauricio believes that for a country that is so healthy that a consensus about the refusal of the use of violence exists as a conflicts solution mechanism, two democratic and political current events that are opposed are clarified.
Read MoreWhat identifies Carlos Gaviria?
Helena Alviar believes that the proposal of Carlos Gaviria Díaz represents an option of the left and not of the orthodoxy
Read MoreThe future of Congress
César Rodríguez notifies that the next Congress will be paradoxical: although elected by overwhelming majority, watch for the interests of some powerful minorities to be represented.
Read MoreAre the rights of Colombians dreams or illusions?
Rodrigo Uprimny, director of DJS, says that programs such as “Dancing for a Dream” or “I have an illusion” send an ambiguous message that fundamental rights are dreams whose execution depends on the artistic abilities of the famous.
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