Posts Tagged ‘Cultura jurídica’
The Lottery of Bad Luck
Last Wednesday I left Bogotá by car towards Nocaima, a small town in western Cundinamarca.
Read MoreBorn Before Your Time
The Swiss scientist said once: “Those who believe in progress are destined to lament being born before their time.”
Read MoreThe Transmilenio Line Cutters
In every society there is a percentage of inidividuals that violate norms. That percentage usually falls below 1% in regards to crimes like homocide, theft, or battery; and rarely exceeds 10% when dealing with citizen norms, like respecting lines and traffic lights.
Read MoreMy Enemies’ Enemies
Among the many things written after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, I read an article by Michael Walzer that I found to be particularly interesting.
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 MoreLaw and Honor
One time I found myself with a foreign colleague that moved to Colombia. I asked how he was doing and he said he was doing very well, that he loved traveling through the country and enjoy the diversity of climates, fruits, and landscapes.
Read MoreThe Law Is Not Neutral
It is fundamental that everything in the judiciary, from the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office to the sentence at Court, not be neutral in terms of gender.
Read MoreEulogy to Shame
Only in Colombia can someone like Álvaro Uribe Vélez accuse someone like Antanas Mockus of cheating.
Read MoreThe Mail of Dishonor
In one of the most difficult moments of the French Revolution (September 1793), when Robespierre feared that his political project would topple, the revolutionary government promulgated a law that identified suspects as “all those who due to their behavior, relationships, intent, or writings, reveal themselves in favor of federalism and as enemies of liberty.”
Read MoreMediocrity and Fraud
Karl-Theodor Zu Guttembertg, German Minister of Defense and star politician of the center right, had to resign in March 2011 when it was revealed that he had copied parts of his doctoral thesis.
Read MoreChallenge to the appointment of Mr. Pedro Munar Cadena as magistrate of the High Judicial Council
Dejusticia challenges the election of Dr. Pedro Munar Cadena as judge of the High Judicial Council, as his appointment violated article 126 of the Constitution.
Read MoreRequest for annulment of appointment of judges of the National Electoral Council
Dejusticia challenged the appointment of judges of the National Electoral Council by Congress. The challenge presents a unique argument according to which the election is invalid because it was done by secret ballot and not through public voting as provided by the Constitution.
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