Constitutional Interpretation
By Diego E. López Medina |
This book looks at the contribution of discussion, comprehension and improvement of the abilities of Colombian judges in the interpretation of the Constitution.
Justice for All? The Judicial System, Social Rights and Democracy in Colombia
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019), Mauricio García Villegas, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
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.
The Laws of the Judges
By Diego E. López Medina |
The Laws of Judges, already a classic of Colombian legal literature, offers in this second edition a substantial revision of its content and structure.
Labor Rights in the FTA Between Colombia and the United States
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
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.
(In: Catalina Botero & Andrea Guardo, eds. Economía social de mercado y tratados de libre comercio en Colombia. Fundación Social y Fund. Konrad Adenauer, 2004)Constitutional Protection of Rights in Brazil, Spain and Colombia: Constitutional Control of the Sentences
By Catalina Botero Marino |
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.
The Judicial Control of the States of Exception
By Mauricio García Villegas, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
This article reviews the history of the Colombia Constitution and its exceptions.
Between the prominence and the routine: A socio-legal analysis of Colombian justice (1980-2005)
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
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.
The Search for Alternative Economies in Times of Globalization: the Case Study of Informal Recycling in Bogotá
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
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.
Expanding the Economic Canon and Searching for Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalization
By Dejusticia |
This introductory chapter theorizes and documents the diverse initiatives of supportive economy and working transnational mobilization that promises of counterhegemonic globalization.
Critical Studies of Law and the Theory of Judicial Decision
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
This introductory study analyzes one of the most influential contemporary debates about the interpretation of rights and judicial decision, initiated between theorists Herbert Hart and Ronald Dworkin.