Posts Tagged ‘Corte Constitucional’
Hans Kelsen in the Tropics
Abelarde De la Espriella, Jorge Pretelt’s lawyer, published this week a column in El Heraldo, where he responds to those who criticized him for saying that ethics have nothing to do with law.
Read MoreLaw and Ethics
Societies that constantly experience scandals, like ours, suffer from a type of collective squizofrenia. Each story of corruption produces two opposite reactions: while some, the moralists, throw up their hands in horror and clamer for exemplary punishments, others, the cynics, shrug their shoulders and say that nothing has happened until there’s a final conviction.
Read MoreSex and Morals
In Christianity’s origins sex did not have much importance. The essence of Jesus of Nazaret’s message, say teologans, can be summarized into two ideas: love your neighbor and prepare yourself, with faith and repentance, for the Final Judgement.
Read MoreReferendum and Adoption
Viviane Morales’ main argument for a referendum regarding adoption by same-sex couples bases itself on an incomplete idea of democacy: democracy as the rule of the majority. However, it is precisely this lone premise that is incompatible with our democratic model.
Read MoreReferendum about Subsidy for Bullfighting
With the Colombian Constitutional Court’s sentence about bullfighting in Bogotá, the matter becomes a citizen debate.
Read MoreA Rational Debate about Bulls
Bullfighting is “a civilizing act, the confrontation between reason and force, in which reason comes out triumphant,” says the Public Prosecutor Ordóñez.
Read MoreCitizen Intervention in the Revision of the BIll on Petition Rights Statutory Law
Dejusticia and Flip ask the Court to examine the contradictions and disharmony between the Statutory Law of Transparency and Access and the public information already in effect as well as the bill on the right to petition that finds itself under constitutional review.
Read MoreLand to Honor the Ancestors
On the afternoon of Tuesday May 13th, Ever de la Rosa Morales, representative of the Community Council of the Islands of Rosario–Orika Homestead, celebrated an important victory for him and 300 other families. After eight years of struggles and waiting, the INCODER notified him that the collective title of the part of the islands where he and other Afro-Colombians live had been granted.
Read MoreIntervention: Political Speech and Special Constitutional Protection
Dejusticia argued before the Constitutional Court that journalist Luis Agustín González should not be criminally liable for his statements about politician Leonor Serrano.
Read MoreIt Depends on How It Goes
If we had to measure how much a person respects the rule of law, I would propose that we count the number of times a person complies with the law, regardless of whether they end up harmed by complying with it or whether they ideologically agree with the law.
Read MoreIntervention: Political Rights in the Legal Framework for Peace
Dejusticia appeared before the Constitutional Court to request that it dismiss the lawsuit brought against Article 66 and 67 of the Constitution, which form part of what is called the “Legal Framework for Peace.”
Read MoreRepeating Oneself and Expecting a Different Result
About 15 years ago, the national government passed a law regulating the prior consultation process without, ironically, consulting the ethnic communities first.
Read MoreThe second round of the Legal Framework for Peace
Petro’s balcony –and now, Falcao’s knee—have managed to overshadow the recent Constitutional Court decision regarding the Legal Framework for Peace.
Read MoreMore on Petro’s Removal from Office
There is an crucial legal issue in Petro’s removal from office that has hardly been discussed. It is the following issue: Even if you accept that the Inspector General has the power to remove a mayor, it would have to be done through a rigorous and demanding process, that was not carried out in Petro’s case.
Read MoreRural Development that Favor Whom?
The rural development model proposed by the National Government, far from facilitating the “democratization” of the land, promotes its concentration and use in favor of large investors.
Read MoreDo Bulls have Rights?
While the Constitutional Court is deciding a case about bullfights in Bogotá, an excellent decision by the State Council makes it clear that animals do have some rights and that bulls are not the exception.
Read MoreRe-election, Peace and Democracy
A closer look at the dates when high-level government officials will be chosen reveals the enormous concentration of power that the re-election of President Santos could bring. The balance of power must be re-established and there are concrete ways of accomplishing this.
Read MoreProgressive Winds Blow In from Administrative Law
Administrative Law judges and the justices of the State Council may be innovating their way of protecting the public interest and of promoting regulation.
Read MoreRemembering our Brothers and Sisters: November 20th, Transgender Day of Remembrance
The fact that 64% of transgender persons in Bogota suffer some sort of aggression because of their gender identity shows that we need to exchange our prejudices for respect and comprehension.
Read MoreThe Ways of Democracy
Once again, the Constitutional Court announced a decision that shook up the political power in Colombia and it positioned itself, again, as the arbitrator of political positions on a highly controversial issue that is fundamental to Colombian institutions.
Read MoreThe Legal System has More than Just Defects
Criticism of the legal system has resumed with force. Many are well-founded, since the judicial system suffers from a series of problems such as slowness, lack of access and transparency, and corruption.
Read MoreA Court Scandal?
Is it, as several analysts have pointed out, an abuse, an excessive formalism or cowardice that the Constitutional Court decided to strike down the reform that broadens military jurisdiction because of a procedural problem?
Read MoreIntervention Legal Framework for Peace
Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court in a petition challenging certain provisions of the legislative act that established the Legal Framework for Peace, considering that the Legal Framework does not violate the Constitution, but rather restricts certain constitutional principles in favor of transitional justice processes.
Read MoreRespect for the Law of Quotas
Dejusticia challenges the election of Dr. Nilson Pinilla Pinilla as new Judge of the Constitutional Court, due to violations of the Quotas Law and the restriction on voting for Dr. Pinilla by judges Dr. Pinilla had appointed.
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