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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]

This reflection paper aims to provide jurisprudential guidelines for judges, both regular as labor protection, as regards the right to organize. Presents a historical overview of the main rules that began the collective labor rights in Colombia, even before he founded the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Constitution was reformed in 1991, giving effect to the concept of constitutional block. The scope mentions the first standards from 1919 to the recent development of the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court, and as method performs the analysis of several agreements ILO freedom of association and invokes some interest jurisprudence. The importance of freedom of association within the social rule of law to reaffirm their protection, framed in international law is concluded [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 present paper constitutes the author's second document presented for his PhD in Law from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, and it presents some reflections regarding the impact that legal precedent and constitutionalization can have on legal certainty. For such purposes, it studies judicial precedent and jurisprudence, as well as its obligatoriness in a legal system. Also, it deals with constitutionalizacion and how legal certainty can be affected by judicial activism and constitutional over interpretation, as well as the risks inherent in them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper explores the political role of the Supreme Court of Colombia during the government of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, particularly from 1953 to 1956. It deals with the relationship between the government of General Rojas and the Supreme Court during the abovementioned period, and the ways in which the military regime tried to affect the independence of the court at different times. The constitutional judicial review of decrees and constitutional reforms during the Rojas administration reveals the strategic behavior of the court, and the interdependencies between law and politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The interpretation of the Constitution has lead to the development of a series of studies devoted to it. It has concerned about the notion, object, characteristics, specificity of constitutional interpretation and the role of constitutional judge. This paper treats this issue, and focuses in the role of constitutional interpretation directives, collecting as much of the doctrine developed, and then criticizing them. Traditional interpretation directives are described; this last ones are opposed to the new criteria that have been developed by certain sectors of the legal doctrine, which goes so far as to propose some directives already contained in other ones or that are not relevant in practice, as is intended to demonstrate in this article. [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--part of a major research which has as objective the philosophy of legal colonialism in Latin America--is dedicated to examine the relationship between indigenism, revolutionary democracy, and counter-constitutional discourse, within the contemporary age in the Latin American context. Our main source is fictional literature, for it is an important constituent of the external legal culture. But it also takes account of the recent constitutional reforms in Bolivia and Ecuador. The methodology is exploratory and it has a critical point of view of the primary and secondary sources. For the reasons explained above, the results are partial, though they are essential to define the legal colonialism and to describe the challenges they expounded to Latin America legal culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]