The objective of this book is to offer an explanation of the origin, content and effect of the recent judicial reforms. The authors also undertake the challenge of evaluating the policies of judicial reform that have been developing in Colombia and in Latin America over the last two decades.

This article examines the theoretical debate and the comparative experiences of labor clauses in free trade agreements and proposes norms for the FTA between Colombia and the United States that effectively protect labor rights.

The works collected in this volume, on the Brazilian, Spanish, and Colombian experience, analyze some of the problems derived from the functional reach assigned to their cores.

This article reviews the history of the Colombia Constitution and its exceptions.

This chapter analyzes two apparently paradoxical aspects of Colombian judicial evolution: its protagonism and its enormous political visibility, on the one hand, and its routinization and loss of social relevance, on the other.

This text examines the potential of supportive economy in the context of globalization, by the way of a case study on the informal recycling cooperatives in Bogotá.

This introductory chapter theorizes and documents the diverse initiatives of supportive economy and working transnational mobilization that promises of counterhegemonic globalization.