Posts Tagged ‘Justicia’
Trampling on rights by judicial order: the risks of presidential appointments of judges in a personalist era
Since Trump ascended to the seat of Lincoln, political personalism has taken over the most powerful nation in the world. Now with the selection of the ultraconservative Neil Gorsuch as nominee to the Supreme Court, the politicization of justice is sharpened, and so is the scrutiny of the system to designate judges to the high courts. Read the…
Read MoreDemocracy, Justice & Society: Ten Years of Research at Dejusticia
This book collects the essential from the texts on justice elaborated during the last decade in the Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society – Dejusticia.
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Edited by Mauricio García and María Adelaida Ceballos, this book collects the essential of the texts on justice produced by more than a dozen researchers during the last decade at Dejusticia.
Read MoreAn impunity accord?
vote NO on the plebiscite claim that they are not against negotiated peace, but
that they believe the accord to be unacceptable because of the impunity it establishes due to the fact that it does not require jail time
for all those responsible for international crimes like massacres, kidnappings,
disappearances, children recruitment or sexual violence.
Informal justice: the formula to solve conflict in FARC abandoned areas
In my previous entry, I argued that after the peace accords, there are other policies more important than forgiveness like the design of adequate mechanisms for solving conflict.
Read MoreThe Trouble Caused by Seeking to Replace the Higher Council of the Judiciary
Was the remedy worse than the disease? Infographic.
Read MoreFor Territorial Peace, Territorial Justice
We are already hearing more elaborate proposals about how the implementation of the agreements with the FARC should work.
Read MoreIn Defense of Latin America’s Indigenous People’s Right to Counsel
Indigenous communities are subject to the “official” justice system in various situations (as victims, witnesses, or the accused) and they have additional rights to those guaranteed to all citizens. In practice, to what extent are these rights guaranteed? In reality, rarely.
Read MoreMulti-Door Courthouses: A Good Idea Badly Managed
This research project aims to do a diagnostic about the National Program on Multi-Door Courthoses and make some public policy recommendations that could magnify their virtues and improve access to justice.
Read MoreForum in Bogotá about the Challenges of Judicial Administration
Carolina Villadiego will intervene on behalf of Dejusticia.
Read MorePandora’s Box
On security issues, it seems that authorities care more about perception than action. When what matters is what citizens perceive, strategies lend themselves more to the marketing of problems than substantive solutions.
Read MoreWhen the Truth Prevails, What Happens to Justice?
Now that negotiations have advanced to consider the second element, justice, it is worth considering: how can truth contribute to justice?
Read MoreSophisticated Lawyers
When we look for those responsable for the judiciary’s crisis, usually the disgraceful ones stick out: the lawyer that says on the record that “ethics have nothing to do with the law,” or his client, the judge that puts this phrase into practice and schemes to drag on the investigation that proceeds against him in Congress.
Read MoreA Problematic Letter
The letter signed by the Prosecutor General and the presidents of the High Courts, in which they strongly criticize the reform to the judiciary proposed by the balance of powers bill and call for its failure, has as much good as bad and ugly.
Read MoreTeachers’ Pay
In a just society, merit and effort are reflected in a person’s pay for his or her job. This idea is illustrated in a famous quote from Bill Clinton: “if you work hard and don’t break the rules, you can expect the country to give you an opportunity to a decent life and that your kids will have a better life than you did.”
Read MoreTowards a Design that Guarantees Adequate Independence of the Judiciary and the Best Method for Selecting Judges for the High Courts
This chapter’s argument is that the independence of the judiciary is a guarantee that without doubt should be preserved but is not absolute and, thus, allows for qualifications in support of more transparency and accountability of the judiciary
Read MoreBefore the Courts: Judicial Needs and Access to Justice in Colombia
This book aims to be the most comprehensive diagnosis of legal needs and access to justice conducted in Colombia.
Read MoreAccess to Justice: Cases of Business Human Rights Abuses
Access to justice and effective remedy have become a crucial element in the protection of human rights within the context of business activities, as well as an area of fundamental importance to judges and lawyers who aim to promote the rule of law and human rights.
Read MoreJudges Without the State
This book is the outcome of a research made in Colombia between 2005 and 2007 on judges working in armed conflict zones in Colombia.
Read MoreVictims for the Search for Truth and Reparation in Colombia
This book is a summary of diverse conferences that took place at the “Truth and Repair in Colombia: from the victims’ perspective” seminar revolved around the same issue: a search for solutions for repair and reconciliation in Colombia.
Read MoreBetween the prominence and the routine: A socio-legal analysis of Colombian justice (1980-2005)
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.
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