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This research article is part of a broader project about the intellectual history of human rights in Colombia between 1974 and 1998. This piece is a preliminary interpretation of the relationship between the Colombian left wing and the ideas of human rights that emerged between 1974 and 1978. The questions that structure this essay are: bearing in mind the classical distrust in liberal legality, what type of relationship did the left build with the rising ideas of human rights? Why was it possible for some leftist groups to embrace the human rights language? The hypothesis is that the left understood the defense of human rights as a project of naming and shaming the bourgeois state for unleashing violence and repression. Showing systematic violence intended to raise consciousness of a “popular social class” that was being targeted by state violence. To defend this thesis I focus on the context surrounding the publication of one of the first reports that tried to make sense of human rights ideas: El libro negro de la represión, written by the Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos, CSPP. In sum, this article is an interpretation of this report from the perspective of the tension between bourgeois legality (embodied in human rights) and the revolutionary project of the left. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The following study is concerned with the construction of an interdisciplinary dialogue between Law and history that recognizes the necessity of consolidating a series of investigations regarding the study of the history of law. to such an end, this study has been specially written for lawyers and historians alike, bearing in mind that the study of the history of law should not exclude one or the other, but rather that it should serve as an ideal instance for these two professions to exchange knowledge and establish dialogue. thus, the importance of recognizing the significance of the historical element in the study of law, as well as the value of acquiring new perspectives on historical and social developments involved in the making of concepts, categories, and actors within the law, is clearly restated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]