Posts Tagged ‘Sistema Judicial’
In 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 MoreThe Police’s Not So Reasonable Doubt
The perverse form in which police department sets goals induces the police to commit arbritrariness against low-income populations.
Read MoreThe Judiciary’s Transition
The judiciary’s transition currently underway requires complete attention; the legal system is far too important to leave it adrift.
Read MoreA Woman Nominee
The replacement of Mauricio González in the Constitutional Court provides President Santos with a golden opportunity: decisively achieving greater gender equity in the courts.
Read MoreIn Defense of the Defense
The application of human rights is only possible if there exists criminal due process, which includes the right to effective criminal defense.
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 Judiciary: Not Only Better Salaries But Also a More Horizontal Justice
One of the most famous and celebrated judges in the history of the American judiciary is Learned Hand.
Read MoreLawyers and Sociologists
One would hope that there would be a certain correspondence between the diplomas that are awarded by universities and society’s needs.
Read MoreMore Prison, More Justice?
ANIF, in its edition of its September magazine Carta Financiera, tacitly argues the following thesis: the greater the rate of incarceration (RI), which is the measure of prisoners per 100,000 people, the greater the efficiency of the criminal system.
Read MoreJustice without Judges
Not all conflicts have to reach the judicial system for resolution given the existence of highly effective mechanisms like direct agreements between parties without the intervention of a third party (be that a judge, conciliator, arbiter, etc.).
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.
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