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The 2030 Agenda integrates the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the SDG 4, quality education. The '2030 Agenda' proposes education for sustainable development as one of the pillars to achieve just, equitable, inclusive societies and in harmony with nature. Within this framework, legal clinic training is an inspiring model for strengthening education for sustainable development in the country. This paper presents the results of documentary research on real work cases of legal clinics in Colombia. In addition, it analyzes the work of various legal clinics across the world in order to explain the correspondence between the global legal clinic agenda and the 2030 Agenda. The paper finds that Colombian legal clinics play a relevant role in promoting sustainability through their integration in the SDG framework, having social justice at the core of their pedagogic goals and social projection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the causes and proposes possible solutions for one of the principle reasons of Colombian backwardness in infrastructure: properties availability. The paper discusses "systemic" and "specific" causes. In relation to the systemic ones, it highlights the need of demanding proper feasibility studies, of changing the moment in which the properties are being acquired and of establishing a government institution that coordinates the entire process more effectively. In relation to the specific ones, it discusses the necessity of determining that a resolution of expropriation based on an infrastructure project should be considered a motive of public utility without discussion. In addition, it proposes to abolish the "pre-judicial process" on the basis of understanding what the Constitutional Court have said as well as establishing a faster and more reliable mechanism of setting the price of the property. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to develop an analysis of the PPP (Public private partnerships) iewed, at the beginning, from an historical and international perspective and then analyses this figure in the national scene at present time. This paper may being enclosed as a reflection paper or a review paper, since on the one hand generates a critique of the figure and in the other hand, makes a revision of the figure of the Public Private Partnership in the national scene. The text addresses the different conceptions and typologies of the PPP, showing the difference of the figure depending the legal system where is developed, and demonstrating that is not a new figure, but a scheme that has been developing from several years ago. Finally, this paper develops the concept of the PPP inside the law 1508 from 2012 and establishes, from a critical perspective, some possible problems that the law could develop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Genetic technology is recent in human history and its scopes and consequences cannot be foreseen either with certainty or scientific evidence. However, current human ability to do practically everything through biomedical experimentation raises a huge responsibility in legal terms: to identify new kinds of harms in reparation (for instance, genetic harm), which were never recognized by traditional positive law since when this was conceived, genetic techniques did not exist. This paper defines genetic harm as a new category of harm integrated into the intangible reparative item of health harm (with the purpose of including it into the Colombian legal order), points out key doctrinarian elements for it to be understood, and explores its epistemological and methodological relationships to biolaw, whose doctrine has been recently created at Georgetown University by one of this paper's authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews the existing literature in Colombia on the International Labour Organization (ilo), as well as a study of its organizational structure, procedures, rules and their applicability in the Colombian legal system, at the constitutional level. This paper also makes an account of the beginnings and the structure of the ilo. The International Labour Standards (ils), their procedure, their obligations and their enforcement mechanisms are also examined throughout this paper. Finally, the decisions of the Governing Body of the ilo are analyzed through its different committees, all of them in the light of the Colombian constitutional jurisprudence. The paper closes with a critical conclusion regarding the Colombian Constitutional Court's decisions related to the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Genetic technology is recent in human history and its scopes and consequences cannot be foreseen either with certainty or scientific evidence. However, current human ability to do practically everything through biomedical experimentation raises a huge responsibility in legal terms: to identify new kinds of harms in reparation (for instance, genetic harm), which were never recognized by traditional positive law since when this was conceived, genetic techniques did not exist. This paper defines genetic harm as a new category of harm integrated into the intangible reparative item of health harm (with the purpose of including it into the Colombian legal order), points out key doctrinarian elements for it to be understood, and explores its epistemological and methodological relationships to biolaw, whose doctrine has been recently created at Georgetown University by one of this paper's authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the way in which the proposal of Garoupa and Ginsburg, regarding the analysis of the judiciary commissions responsible for the administration of the judicial branch, the assignment of judges and disciplinary sanctions, is applied to Colombia. First, it analyses if it is suitable to refer to a tension between political independence and responsibility in the ordinary judicial system of a country like Colombia. Second, it studies the institutional design of that system. Third, it develops a scheme to achieve that both the Superior Council and the ordinary judiciary become more politically independent and responsible. Through out this paper the author concludes that in Colombia accountability can be increase without limiting the judicial independence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the author shows how Ginsburg and Garoupa's discussion of the "eternal search" for the balance between accountability and judicial independence through the design of judicial councils, may inform contexts such as Colombia's. The author also shows some results of a research project that dealt with the most recent nomination of Constitutional Court's Justices in Colombia (2008). Furthermore, the author argues that Garoupa and Ginsburg's paper is useful to explain the shortcut between judicial independence and accountability observed in the 2008 Colombian Constitutional Court's nomination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The legal deposit, in addition to be the basis for the national collection constitution, is a sine qua non requirement for creating national bibliography, that is, the creation of the bibliographical records of every single new publication. Colombia has, since the 19th century, a regulation commanding editors around the country to submit to a governmental institution some copies of their editorial production; not being this the only ruling, since during the 20th century, many rulings were issued trying to regulate that action, some more successful than others. That is the case of Law 44 of 1993 and Decree 460 of 1995. This reflection paper analyzes that law to show how it is still insufficient to keep national bibliographical control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to present the characterization that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (iachr) has made through its decisions of the concept of conventionality control and the implementation of this concept in Colombia. In particular, we aim to demonstrate that the development of this concept in the decisions of the Constitutional Court and the State Council has had a breakthrough in terms of normative integration of the Inter- American corpus iuris with domestic law. However, our courts have been shy to express the supremacy of international standards on all national laws, and because of this, they have prevented the construction of a conventionality control of the laws that goes far beyond the traditional constitutional control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of psychology can be placed in scenarios apparently outside of field. In order to understand the development of psychology out of laboratory and great characters, this paper studies the means by which the production of psychological knowledge is assembled on society. Is analyzed the production discursive of psychology experts who participated in 2009 in the legal debate on gay adoption in Colombia, describing the way in which psychological evidence is articulated to legal field. Is found that the Corte Constitucional is a scenario that favors and promotes the production of psychological knowledge, and experts built versions of the social order through the evidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to highlight the progress of the research is developing a case study on unfair competition within the baking industry sector. The bakery sector in Colombia, is located in the great Agrifood Industry study for them if you are covered by our Colombian law rules governing this sector specialized manner. This together shall be referred to the Spanish regulations compared to the Common European Framework states that given the similarities we have with this country with regard to commercial relations established between Contract Analysis - Supermarkets and Consumers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Domestic violence is a complex issue nowadays in Colombian society. According to the latest report from the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, during 2013, 68.230 cases of domestic violence took place. 77.58% was against women and 22.42% against men. In the context of this reality, academics have focused their interest in the analysis of the implementation, social consequences and the reception of rules against domestic violence. Taking into account this, the objective of this paper is to report the state of the art of legal and social research on domestic violence in Colombia. The methodology used for this literature review was to analyze secondary references. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is focused on the analysis of the evolution of the conscientious objection in the jurisprudence of the Colombian Constitutional Court: at the beginning it has not received constitutional protection or was protected in a restricted manner, then it received recognition as a expression of freedoms of religion and conscience, and nowadays is categorized by the jurisprudence as a fundamental right. Moreover this article intends to illustrate the existence of a constitutional regulatory framework for conscientious objection, design to be applied in the different scenarios where it could be possible to claim it. This framework allows special rules just in the contexts where claiming the right to conscientious objection implies an opposition to other fundamental rights, but not in contexts where is opposed just to obligations. To do this, the article exposes the result of the analysis from the jurisprudential review of decisions of the Constitutional Court from 1992 to 2013 in five different scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses in a detailed description of the discussion on the management models of judicial offices and suggests the emergence of a new organizational procedural law that takes care of them. Thus, it aims to create a knowledge base that contributes in the difussion of this issue and demonstrates the importance of creating a new branch of law that deals with its study and application. The above objective will be carried out through a review of the literature related to management models of judicial offices and judicial management in order to develop a descriptive exercise of the relevant contents without leaving behind a critical approach when interpreting them. In this context, the real purpose of judicial management, the importance of including judicial officers in the debate and the need to expedite the discussion in Colombia, among others, will emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The document is entended to present normative context, delimit the content and analyze the impact of the final decision, from the intervention made by PAIIS which was requested by the Constitutional Court, in records No. T-3672842 and T-3754187 that were cases accumulated, which consist in protective actions complaint and made by Luis Antonio Pérez and Marcos Omar Suárez Covos Piragauta, two paralympic athletes who have represented the country in national and international competitions like shooting sport and swimming, against the Administrative Department of Sport, Recreation, physical Activity and Use of Free Time (Coldeportes), which gave rise to the judgment T-287 of 2013, issued by the Sixth Court of review of the Constitutional Court. The author of this paper made the research and writing of amicus curiae which was presented to the Court under the supervision of the consultant team, paiis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The "hiring carousel" in Bogotá has been the biggest corruption scandal that has been dismantled in Colombia up to this day. Consequently, the Colombian state countered by promoting the creation and modification of legal rules as a way to defeat corruption, as illustrated, for instance, in the 1474 law of 2011 (Anti-Corruption Statute). This paper portrays an evaluation and a comparison between facts and legislative measures that were promoted to offset this corruption phenomenon. Furthermore, this piece analyzes the enforceability of the anti-corruption statute and evaluates if legislative measures are the correct path to defeat and eradicate corruption, or if law, because of its rigidity, is not enough to face this social calamity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses in a detailed description of the discussion on the management models of judicial offices and suggests the emergence of a new organizational procedural law that takes care of them. Thus, it aims to create a knowledge base that contributes in the difussion of this issue and demonstrates the importance of creating a new branch of law that deals with its study and application. The above objective will be carried out through a review of the literature related to management models of judicial offices and judicial management in order to develop a descriptive exercise of the relevant contents without leaving behind a critical approach when interpreting them. In this context, the real purpose of judicial management, the importance of including judicial officers in the debate and the need to expedite the discussion in Colombia, among others, will emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is a bibliographical overview that constitutes the author's first document presented for his PhD in Law from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. It presents the latest studies on certain fundamental concepts regarding legal certainty. For this purpose, it will deal with matters such as the concept of legal certainty and its relation with the legal system, the elements and importance of legal certainty, its perception as a value or as a principle, as well as the main threats to legal certainty, focusing on the crisis of the law as a source of a legal system and the imperativeness of legal precedent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The "hiring carousel" in Bogotá has been the biggest corruption scandal that has been dismantled in Colombia up to this day. Consequently, the Colombian state countered by promoting the creation and modification of legal rules as a way to defeat corruption, as illustrated, for instance, in the 1474 law of 2011 (Anti-Corruption Statute). This paper portrays an evaluation and a comparison between facts and legislative measures that were promoted to offset this corruption phenomenon. Furthermore, this piece analyzes the enforceability of the anti-corruption statute and evaluates if legislative measures are the correct path to defeat and eradicate corruption, or if law, because of its rigidity, is not enough to face this social calamity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how the principles of corporate social responsibility are included in the Colombian legal system. This is a descriptive and cross-sectional research based on qualitative data, which examines the legal regulation of CSR in Colombia, from the analysis of the principles of Global Compact grouped into four areas: human rights, labor, environmental and fight against corruption. It is concluded that the different aspects of CSR are regulated to a greater or lesser extent in the Colombian legal system, which shows that this is not, at least not entirely voluntary and that the regulation in this area as well as voluntary initiatives are appropriate and necessary, not contradictory, but are complementary instead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I wish to analyze the relationship between judicial truth and memory. I want to answer the following question: Can the prosecution produce truth and, therefore, can this really be the basis for the social production of memory? I also want to analyze the characteristics of the process of justice and peace, created by Law 975 of 2005, and the fact that in this process there is no confrontation for the production of truth. On the contrary, in this process there is a strategic production a truth, that of the perpetrator, with the notable absence of the truth of the victims. To do this I will analyze the statements made by two of the offenders within the justice and peace process and a letter from one of the paramilitary commanders. In all of them I want to show the exculpatory arguments that are put forward and the power that such arguments have for the production of truth and memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Precautionary Principle is one of the most flexible concepts of International Environmental Law because of its different meanings within the devices that contain it and its diverse activation mechanisms depending on risk levels and rules of restriction. In Colombia, the Constitution, a few environmental laws and jurisprudence of the high courts have applied it in relation to issues such as collective rights, waste, biodiversity, mining, etc. This paper aims to explain the scope of this principle considering its negative and positive elements from the analysis of its origins in International Law and the way it has been implemented in Colombian legal system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As part of the transformation that has taken place in the family law regime towards the inclusion of same-sex couples, the Constitutional Court has played a central role and perhaps alone. This paper analyzes the main decisions of the Constitutional Court concerning standardization in the field of protection for same-sex couples, drawing from each building elements, most relevant jurisprudence. Thus I argue that through a variety of interpretive tools, the Court has instrumentalized its decisions to exercise political opportunity in the direction of the prevailing view, using the conditioning of the judgments of constitutionality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes how the Colombian Constitutional Court in its jurisprudence includes references to case law of the European Court of Human Rights, in exercising its constitutional oversight and review of protection measures, analyzed from the incorporation of the principle of human dignity, which is considered a social foundation of our state and founding principle of the law. With this aim we present first, all referents concerning legal, doctrinal and jurisprudential universal and regional human rights protection systems; secondly, the constitutional development given in Colombia to the human rights issue and finally we analyze the sentences in which the Constitutional Court refers to the European Court on the scope of the principle of human dignity Statements that specifically refer to the protection of prison population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the first Japanese immigrants in Colombia (1922-1936). This research is a compilation of legal resolutions dictated in the 1886 Colombia's Republic Constitution towards immigration. Particularly, this research points out debates around the improvement of the race project through promoting alien immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. To come up with such a compilation, reviewing primary official sources (laws and decrees), discourses and related literature was fundamental. The analysis of the research shows that there is a correlation between diverse laws that allowed or restricted aliens to enter the country. In addition the debates taking place in different groups of the local society around the benefits and disadvantages of letting immigrants enter the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the fact that constitutionalism Colombian general rule is the principle of freedom of legislative initiative of the members of Congress in the formation of laws, the Constitution has established with respect to certain matters that the initiative rests on an exclusive basis to the National Government. In that vein, this paper presents the arguments employed by the Constitutional Court to clarify the scope of application of the grounds that limit legislative initiative in the form reserved for the National Government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo presenta la transcripción de la conferencia ofrecida por Karen Engle en la Universidad de Los Andes, en Colombia. La charla trata sobre los derechos de las comunidades afrodescencientes en Colombia, el Caribe y el Pacífico, en el contexto de la Ley 70 y sus antecedentes constitucionales.