The United States-Colombia Free Trade Agreement and Labor Rights
César Rodríguez, a member of the Sociology Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, completed an analysis of the labor rights within the scope of the United States-Colombia
Free Trade Agreement.
Venezuela after the Recall Referendum of 2004
Written by the constitutionalist, Juan Fernando Jaramillo: After the results of the recall referendum, the opposition should recognize the legitimacy of the Chávez government.
Read MoreVariations about the Justification of Impunity
Danilo Rojas, investigator of Dejusticia, explores the diverse excuses used to justify the impunity in the processes of peace.
Read MoreThe VAT (GST) and the Constitutional Court
César Rodríguez defends the decision by the Colombian Constitutional Court to leave the tax reform that extends the VAT (GST) to the family basket alone.
Read MoreMulticulturalism in Colombian constitutional jurisprudence
In September 2003, a project called “Strengthening of the Constitutional Justice in Ecuador” was created by the First Ecuadorian Congress of Legal Anthropology and Legal Pluralism to further the force of multiculturalism. The objective of this project was to contribute to the analysis and reflection of the coexistence of the indigenous law and the communal law in Ecuador. The presentations addressed by the project are complied in this book.
Read MorePension or Illusion?
The constitutionalist, Mauricio García Villegas, analyzes the reaction of economists after the recent opinion by the Constitutional Court about the system of pension transactions and he concludes that they only value legal security when it benefits the businessmen. Forum with the readers.
Read MoreMulticulturalism and Indigenous Rights
After reflecting on multiculturalism and constitutional law in Latin America, the author does a systematic study of the most important opinions of the Colombian Constitutional Court on the rights of the indigenous people, with the aim of showing the most reasonable criteria found in such opinions that can be used to solve conflicts in a multicultural state.
Read MorePreamble to the Political Constitution
The Preambles to the Latin American Constitutions (Madrid 2001). In this article, the author looks to achieve an approximation of the preamble to the letter from 1991 from a neo-constitutional perspective. The article is composed of two separate but complementary parts. In the first part, the author studies the origin of the preamble in the National Constitutional Assembly. In the second part, the author analyzes the contents, importance and value of the preamble and the most relevant jurisprudence in the Constitutional Court in respect to each of its parts.
Read MoreSociology of law
Some of the classic articles published in Law and Society up until 1990 are translated and published in this book. A preliminary study about the movement of Law and Society in USA is presented as the first chapter of the book
Read MorePolitical Constitution of Colombia
This work contains the text of the Political Constitution of Colombia, mentioning the latest updates of the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court and the relevant doctrine of each one of its rules. It includes a supplement that contains the connection of the legislative acts that have modified the Constitution, a synopsis of the statutory and natural laws, and text of the rules that regulate constitutional processes and the mechanisms that guarantee fundamental rights. Catlina Botero Marino elaborates on the original text about which legislations have affected successive updates.
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