{"id":26197,"date":"2008-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/the-lawyers\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:28:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:28:35","slug":"the-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIENTRAS MAYOR ES EL IMPACTO P\u00dablico de una profesi\u00f3n, mayor inter\u00e9s tiene el Estado en regularla. Es por eso que los m\u00e9dicos, por ejemplo, tienen m\u00e1s restricciones para ejercer su profesi\u00f3n que, digamos, los antrop\u00f3logos. \u00bfY los abogados? Pues con el derecho pasa lo mismo que con la medicina: dada la incidencia que los abogados tienen en la vida p\u00fablica \u2014la calidad y probidad de los abogados son indispensables para el buen funcionamiento de la justicia y para el ejercicio y protecci\u00f3n de los derechos ciudadanos\u2014el Estado pone l\u00edmites al libre ejercicio de la profesi\u00f3n.<br \/>\nAs\u00ed deber\u00eda ser, pero en Colombia el Estado no ejerce casi ning\u00fan control sobre los abogados, ni sobre las facultades en donde estudian. Desde que se promulg\u00f3 la Ley 30 de 1994, que regula los estudios de derecho, los requisitos para crear facultades de leyes han sido pr\u00e1cticamente inexistentes. Eso explica que el n\u00famero de programas de derecho haya pasado de 66 en 1994 a 178 en 2007. La mayor parte de estas nuevas facultades han sido creadas por abogados litigantes, en ciudades intermedias y con fines econ\u00f3micos o pol\u00edticos, m\u00e1s que acad\u00e9micos. A ellas ingresan, por lo general, los estudiantes que no tienen el dinero para pagar el cupo en las facultades de \u00e9lite o que no pasan el examen para entrar a las universidades p\u00fablicas.<\/p>\n<p>Mientras que en otros pa\u00edses es la universidad p\u00fablica la que responde al aumento de la demanda educativa, en Colombia es una oferta privada, mediocre y sin controles la que lo hace. Como resultado de esto, tenemos el peor sistema posible de educaci\u00f3n jur\u00eddica (y no s\u00f3lo jur\u00eddica). Un sistema que es jerarquizado, como en los Estados Unidos, con universidades buenas, regulares y malas \u2014a diferencia del sistema igualitario y estatal que existe en Europa\u2014,  pero en donde el ingreso no se hace por m\u00e9ritos, como sucede en los Estados Unidos, sino por clase social, es decir, por dinero. Los estudiantes ricos van a las facultades privadas de \u00e9lite, mientras que los dem\u00e1s van a las privadas pobres y de peor calidad (salvo cuando logran un cupo en una universidad p\u00fablica). Como quien dice, tratando de copiar a los gringos, hemos creado un mamarracho que no es ni liberal, ni democr\u00e1tico, sino olig\u00e1rquico. <\/p>\n<p>Nada de esto ser\u00eda tan grave si hubiese controles de salida, es decir, controles al ejercicio profesional. Pero tampoco. En Colombia no existen, como en todos los pa\u00edses desarrollados, filtros que restrinjan el ingreso de los abogados reci\u00e9n egresados al mundo laboral. Aqu\u00ed basta con tener un t\u00edtulo de abogado \u2014venga de donde viniere\u2014 para poder litigar y s\u00f3lo hay que esperar un par de a\u00f1os, incluso sin hacer nada, para poder ser juez. No existe un examen de Estado, que servir\u00eda para filtrar a los abogados mal preparados, ni tampoco existe afiliaci\u00f3n obligatoria a los colegios de abogados, los cuales cumplen funciones p\u00fablicas de regulaci\u00f3n y vigilancia.<\/p>\n<p>En un pa\u00eds asediado por las mafias y los grupos armados de toda \u00edndole, el fortalecimiento de la justicia deber\u00eda ser uno de los grandes prop\u00f3sitos nacionales, como lo fue en su momento el fortalecimiento del Ej\u00e9rcito. Para lograr eso habr\u00eda que empezar por regular en serio las facultades de derecho y por establecer una colegiatura obligatoria para controlar el ejercicio profesional. Por desgracia, existen demasiados intereses econ\u00f3micos y pol\u00edticos en contra de estas dos iniciativas. Pero esto lo dejo para otra columna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While greater the public impact of a profession, greater the interest of the government to regulate it. That\u00b4s why that the doctors for example, have more restrictions to exercise their profession than, let\u00b4s say, anthropologists.  And the lawyers? With law happens the same thing as with medicine: due to the incidence of lawyers in public life &#8211; quality and honesty are indispensable for the proper operation of justice and the exercise and protections of civilians rights &#8211; the State sets limits to the free practice of the profession. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","medium-el-espectador-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Lawyers - Dejusticia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/los-abogados-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Lawyers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While greater the public impact of a profession, greater the interest of the government to regulate it. 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