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Using a Colombian case study, this book assesses the potential for court rulings to enact real-life social change.
This is an analysis of the international legal order from the feminist perspective. It argues that the institutions, methodologies and substantive principles of international law are gendered in that they are based on the realities of male lives.
El desplazamiento forzado, sufrido por aproximadamente dos millones quinientos mil colombianos, es un flagelo pues atenta contra la convivencia pacífica del tejido social de Colombia, si se tiene en cuenta que este fenómeno es sinónimo de desolación y sufrimiento para las víctimas directas e indirectas que lo padecen. En él, la razón humana parece escabullirse por los laberintos de la intolerancia e inconciencia de los actos de quienes propician, fomentan y, en algunos casos, se lucran con dicho comportamiento criminal. Estas razones son suficientes para investigar el comportamiento que ha asumido la Corte Constitucional colombiana, como garante de los derechos fundamentales.
Las últimas décadas del siglo XX representan un periodo de transformación global en la actividad judicial. La inter- nacionalización y globalización del derecho, así como la era de la informática, cambiaron la forma en cómo los jueces y sobre todo las Cortes Constitucionales, se comunican entre sí, resuelven sus casos y construyen su jurisprudencia. Gracias al fácil acceso en las distintas bases de datos de contenido jurídico, como también a los porta- les electrónicos judiciales donde empezaban a publicarse las sentencias, los jueces pasaron de estar parcialmente aislados en sus propios ordenamientos, a estar mayor- mente interconectados. Esta interconexión generó la producci...
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Dworkin's important book is a collection of essays which discuss almost all of the great constitutional issues of the last two decades, including abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, homosexuality, pornography, and free speech. Dworkin offers a consistently liberal view of the Constitution and argues that fidelity to it and to law demands that judges make moral judgments. He proposes that we all interpret the abstract language of the Constitution by reference to moral principles about political decency and justice. His 'moral reading' therefore brings political morality into the heart of constitutional law. The various chapters of this book were first published separately; now drawn together they provide the reader with a rich, full-length treatment of Dworkin's general theory of law.
This is the first book to map and explain compliance with judgments of social rights across multiple jurisdictions.
Este texto guía permite a los estudiantes analizar y afianzar los ejes temáticos establecidos en la parcelación de la asignatura Teoría constitucional e instituciones políticas. El libro se convierte en un instrumento pedagógico idóneo que presenta tanto la relatoría de todos los temas tratados en clase como los lineamientos generales de las temáticas desarrolladas en la asignatura. De esta manera, el Manual introductorio de derecho constitucional colombiano se complementa con otros textos en el abordaje del derecho constitucional en Colombia.
To what extent do courts in Latin America protect individual rights and limit governments? This volume answers these fundamental questions by bringing together today's leading scholars of judicial politics. Drawing on examples from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica and Bolivia, the authors demonstrate that there is widespread variation in the performance of Latin America's constitutional courts. In accounting for this variation, the contributors push forward ongoing debates about what motivates judges; whether institutions, partisan politics and public support shape inter-branch relations; and the importance of judicial attitudes and legal culture. The authors deploy a range of methods, including qualitative case studies, paired country comparisons, statistical analysis and game theory.
The drive to conduct this research was born out of the tension that developed on May of 2017 in the context of the journalistic coverage of the exhumations of those who died in the Bojayá massacre. Thus, this document has the purpose of asking and answering, from a socio-legal perspective, the following question: How can the events related to the armed conflict and to the transition to peace be narrated without violating the right to privacy of the victims? Or, how can a journalist record a dramatic event or recount an injuste that moves readers while respecting the limits of the private lives of the victims? To answer the question, this document examines the tensions between rights that can arise out of narrating the transition to peace as part of the journalistic profession, with the hope that the conclusion set forth is valid not only for the Bojayá case, but also in future transition years, as both victims and society in general benefit from a free and responsible press and the respect for private lives.