Precedente Revista Jurídica (ISSN 1657-6535 | ISSN 2805-993X (en línea)) es una publicación semestral de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad Icesi (Cali, Colombia). Publica trabajos inéditos de académicos nacionales y extranjeros en temas generales de la Teoría Jurídica, Derecho Comparado, Historia del Derecho y dogmática jurídica en derecho civil, comercial, laboral, constitucional, administrativo, penal, entre otros. Su objetivo fundamental es la divulgación de la producción intelectual de carácter reflexivo, crítico y constructivo de los artículos, recensiones y reseñas que la componen. El proceso editorial incluye una revisión por pares expertos, bajo el sistema doble ciego, que garantiza contenidos de alta calidad que responden a las necesidades y expectativas de la comunidad académica. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18046/prec
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Trabajo de cuidado no remunerado: un análisis de la desigualdad de género, el reconocimiento jurídico y la redistribución desde un enfoque interseccional
The article analyzes unpaid care work in Colombia as a structural source of gender inequality, from an intersectional approach that makes visible the inequalities and forms of oppression that converge in the experiences of women caregivers. Based on a documentary and analytical-critical methodology, the article examines the normative and jurisprudential advances that have addressed the right to care, taking as a reference Nancy Fraser’s model of justice grounded in the axes of recognition, redistribution, and representation. The findings reveal significant progress in the legal recognition of care as an autonomous fundamental right by the Constitutional Court; however, there are still gaps regarding the guarantee of labor rights, social protection, and shared responsibility among the State, family, and society. It concludes that the consolidation of public policies and regulations with an intersectional approach constitutes an imperative to materialize substantive equality and ensure the autonomy of women caregivers.
Copyright (c) 2026 Angélica Alejandra Ordoñez Osorio https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Judicial review in the works of Justo Arosemena
The text examines Justo Arosemena’s contribution to the nineteenth-century Latin American debate on constitutional review. It explores the tension in his thought between skepticism toward New Granada’s Supreme Court and his critical engagement with U.S.-style judicial review, particularly regarding the limits imposed by the case-or-controversy rule and political-question doctrine. Arosemena advocates broader standing and a centralized abstract action against unconstitutional laws, anticipating mixed models of constitutional review.
Copyright (c) 2026 Salvador Sánchez González https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Psychosocial support in criminal proceedings in Ukraine as crisis communication during martial law and the post-war period
This article examines the necessity and legal feasibility of institutionalizing psychosocial support within the criminal procedure framework of Ukraine, particularly in the context of martial law and post-war recovery. Drawing on doctrinal legal analysis and comparative law, with special attention to the German model, the study highlights the acute psychological vulnerability of certain groups—children, persons with disabilities, war veterans, victims of war crimes—and their increased exposure to secondary victimization during criminal proceedings. Existing legislative gaps in the Ukrainian Criminal Procedure Code are identified, with emphasis on the lack of procedural mechanisms for the involvement of psychologists and facilitators. It proposes a comprehensive legal reform package, including the introduction of new procedural definitions, participant rights, and institutional roles for psychosocial facilitators. By conceptualizing psychosocial support as a form of crisis procedural communication, the study argues for its critical role in ensuring procedural fairness, dignity, and effective participation. The findings aim to inform national legislative efforts and promote alignment with international human rights standards, particularly those established under EU Directive 2012/29/EU. The article concludes with specific legislative recommendations and calls for the development of an integrated system of support services within the Ukrainian justice system.
Copyright (c) 2026 Inna Rakipova https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The right to freedom to choose a profession or trade: a critical analysis of the limits established by the jurisprudence of the Colombian Constitutional Court
This article critically analyzes the fundamental right enshrined in Article 26 of the 1991 Colombian Constitution: the freedom to choose one's profession or trade. From a neoconstitutionalist approach, it examines the limits imposed by the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court in relation to the State's eventual moral commitments. It incorporates a historical, philosophical, and normative analysis of the functions of the State and the interpretive scope of judgments C-422/05, T-207/10, and C-932/14, among others. It argues that the social and democratic State model of law requires a balance between individual autonomy and the protection of human dignity, and that the Constitutional Court has oscillated between liberal and perfectionist approaches in its rulings. The article concludes with theoretical proposals to strengthen the role of constitutional law as a guiding framework for ethical and inclusive labor policies.
Copyright (c) 2026 Luis Alberto Sierra Pajoy, José Luis Osorio Muñoz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Consensual Abortion and the Penal System's Failure to Protect the Nasciturus: An Analysis of the Proportionality of Article 149 of the COIP in Relation to the Right to Life from Conception
This research critically examines the apparent normative contradiction within the Ecuadorian legal system between the constitutional mandate to protect life from conception (Article 45 of the Constitution) and the lenient penalty established for the crime of consensual abortion (Article 149 of the COIP). From a dogmatic-legal perspective and based on the principle of proportionality, the study evaluates whether such penalty effectively fulfills the function of protecting the unborn child as a rights-bearing subject. Through normative, jurisprudential, and comparative analysis, it is demonstrated that the current criminal response is insufficient and ineffective, resulting in a constitutionally unacceptable lack of protection. The research applies Robert Alexy's proportionality test and incorporates doctrinal positions from authors such as Jakobs, Ferrajoli, and Roxin, concluding that there is a structural disproportionality that undermines the protection of the right to prenatal life. Ultimately, the study reveals a practical disconnect between the penal sanction and the constitutional mandate, underscoring the need for legislative reform to ensure coherence and effectiveness within the legal system.
Copyright (c) 2026 Luis Maldonado https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The Evolution of the Replacement Test in the Colombian Constitutional Court
Since the Colombian Constitutional Court established the constitutional replacement doctrine in 2003, there has been significant interest regarding its philosophical foundations, implications for the structure of the state, and political consequences. However, the study of the argumentative structure used by the Constitutional Court when applying this theory has been relatively sidelined from academic discussion. Therefore, this article presents an analysis of the evolution in the methodology of the replacement test using a qualitative methodology of jurisprudential review, that will explore the reasoning deployed by the Constitutional Judges, outlining their argumentative model and emphasizing cases where it has been modified. This article will demonstrate that the replacement test has not been immutable, evolving from a typical syllogism to a stage that appears to incorporate the principle of proportionality, allowing for the modulation of the intensity of control. Consequently, it will be concluded that none of the methods employed by the Constitutional Court satisfy the requirements to be considered rational according to the theory of legal argumentation.
Copyright (c) 2025 Jorge Sebastián Pabón Benavides https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The colonized reading of historical Colombian constitutions. Historical examples and a methodological proposal
This paper examines certain practices of academic colonization in the way constitutional history has been approached, both by legal historians and constitutionalists. Drawing on concrete examples, it argues that every time a new fashionable transnational theory appears, the interpretation of Colombia’s past constitutions is reshaped. This dynamic has prevented a correct and decolonized reading of our own constitutional history.
Copyright (c) 2025 Andrés Botero Bernal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Os impactos socioambientais decorrentes da exploração de sal-gema em áreas urbanas: um estudo de caso no município de Maceió, Brasil
This article analyzes the socio-environmental impacts of rock salt mining in urban areas, based on a case study of the municipality of Maceió, in northeastern Brazil, where mining activities have caused structural effects on the territory and the lives of thousands of residents. The research aimed to clarify the social and environmental repercussions of the extractive activity carried out by the company Braskem S.A., with a focus on the vulnerabilities imposed on the local population and the institutional response to the resulting damages. To this end, a qualitative, exploratory, and explanatory approach was adopted, based on documentary and bibliographic research, using the hypothetical-deductive method, guided by the hypothesis that the fundamental right to a healthy environment has been systematically subordinated to economic interests. The analysis was guided by the theoretical framework of environmental justice and collective environmental law, which enabled the interpretation of the observed socio-environmental conflicts as paradigmatic expressions of structural inequality in the distribution of risks and resources. This is a representative study of the unequal effects of extractive activities in urban contexts, providing relevant insights for the debate on sustainability, justice and human dignity. The results show that, although compensation and reparation mechanisms have been implemented, omissions by public authorities and attempts to expand mining activities into new areas persisted, confirming the urgent need to strengthen the legal protection of vulnerable urban territories and to promote a sustainable development model that prioritizes fundamental collective rights.
Copyright (c) 2025 Gabriela Eulalio de Lima, Hudson Carlos Avancini Persch https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The complex reception of International Human Rights Commitments by the Colombian State
This article analyzes the relationships between international law and domestic law in the field of human rights protection within the Colombian legal system. As a paradigmatic case, it examines Becerra Barney vs. the Colombian State, heard by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, in the context of the so-called “faceless justice.” The article reviews various theoretical approaches that help explain the interaction between different legal orders, with the aim of contrasting them with the actual practices of the Colombian State in fulfilling its international obligations. For this purpose, it explores how the Colombian internal order structures its opening and reception clauses concerning international law. Ultimately, the article intends to (i) highlight the asymmetry that exists between the aforementioned clauses, due to a deficient reception process, and (ii) show how, in practice, with respect to compliance with international commitments, the Colombian State aligns, incorrectly, with dualist theoretical parameters, despite publicly claiming adherence to judicial dialogue and constitutional pluralism.
Copyright (c) 2025 Manuel Francisco Arango Zambrano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Derecho al Cuidado: emergencias y ausencias en el acceso, oferta y demanda en América Latina
Copyright (c) 2024 Teodora Hurtado Saa, Sandra Balanta Cobo, Lina Buchely Ibarra https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Injusticia sin fin: La brecha pensional de género e ideas para cerrarla
This text presents a review of the book Injustice Without End: The Gender Pension Gap and Ideas to Close it, edited by Laura Porras-Santanilla and Natalia Ramírez-Bustamante. Throughout the text, I argue that the book contributes to documenting a key phenomenon that has been understudied in Colombia: the double gender pension gap. To this end, I discuss the prior research agenda that led to the book’s publication, its main findings and the research directions it opens. I also relate the findings to one of its main causes: the unfair distribution of care responsibilities.
Copyright (c) 2024 Andrés Rodríguez Morales https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Giving birth, being born and caring with humanity: intersectional reflections on the sexual health of racialized women in Mexico
This article presents intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches to gynecological- obstetric violence in Mexico. It includes a historical and philosophical analysis of the hegemonic model of motherhood, its implications on the lives of racialized women, and violent gynecological-obstetric care in the public health system. The origins of the motherhood model between the 17th and 19th centuries are explored, alongside its repercussions in contemporary society. The article also critiques public health policies implemented at the beginning of the 20th century, influenced by the eugenics movement, and examines their relationship with the current public health system, which has normalized forced contraception targeting racialized, working-class, peasant, impoverished and/or migrant women, as well as the violation of their human rights in delivery rooms. Furthermore, a critique is made of in Mexico’s fragmented and inefficient health system, particularly in providing medical care to women in areas such as sexual and reproductive health, cervical cancer, breast cancer, gynecological-obstetric violence, and forced contraception. Finally, it concludes with reflections on the need for an anti-racist and anti-patriarchal perspective regarding the guarantee of the right to health, the right to care, sexual and reproductive rights, and, more broadly, human rights for racialized women.
Copyright (c) 2024 Angélica Aparicio Saavedra https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Caring for the elderly. Manifestations and challenges of the right to care in an ageing society
The accelerated process of population aging raises questions about the redistribution of eldercare. Women continue to bear a greater share of this responsibility, making it essential to examine the extent to which the right to care has been recognized in the context of elderly care. This essay analyzes the redistributive effects of recognizing the right to care for the elderly, considering the particular challenges of eldercare especially in light of ageist structures embedded in the law. To this end, it examines the scope of the concept of the right to care that permeates the redistributive discourses that impact how eldercare is provided in families, the market and the scope of the obligations of the States in this area.
Copyright (c) 2024 TARY CUYANA GARZÓN https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Young people’s self-care: a systematic review toward their recognition as social and political subjects
The main objective of this research article is to carry out a systematic review on the topic of self-care among young people, aimed at recognizing them as social and political subjects, in order to identify categories of analysis that allow us to understand their daily practices and experiences as young Latin Americans. Using a qualitative research approach with documentary techniques, this study aims to critically examine how care has been constructed from hierarchical, adult-centric and exclusionary discourses that are contrary to the needs of young people, by not recognising them as subjects capable of caring for themselves, others and their environment, and relegating this activity to families, third parties or the State. The results reveal young people’s demand for environmental care in the face of climate change and for the care of others through community-based practices of political and social participation, as well as concerns about persistent inequalities, wars and conflicts.
Copyright (c) 2024 Lina Marcela Estrada Jaramillo, Juan Fernando García Castro, Iván Darío Carmona Aranzazu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Proposal of an Index of the Vulnerability in Unpaid Care Work (IVC) and its relationship with roadtraffic accidents in Cali
Exogenous events to households and beyond the control of the women within them often result in women assuming more unpaid caregiving responsibilities, further restricting their time and possibilities to participate in the paid labor market. This article proposes an index to classify men and women in terms of their vulnerability to devote more hours to unpaid care work based on their individual and household characteristics, including the presence of motorcycle users. We associate a greater probability of road traffic accidents occurring when a household member is a motorcyclist, which creates and additional potential demand for caregiving within the household. Such external events disproportionately affect women, particularly those who already devote significant time to unpaid care work. In other words, a road accident involving a household member increases the vulnerability of women who already primary caregivers. Using data from the Gran Encuesta de Hogares for Cali, the index is estimated, showing that women are more vulnerable than men when a household member is affected by a road traffic accident.
Copyright (c) 2024 Maria Castillo-Valencia, Diana Marcela Jiménez Restrepo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Dignity and Person. Jurisprudential Lines in the Discourse of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
This paper analyzes how the term dignity appears in relation to the term person in the discourse of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It emphasizes the paragraphs in which the Interamerican Court has referred to both notions and the formulas it uses in this regard, aiming to expose dynamic relationships between them. The purpose is to detect and describe the formulas in which these terms appear in the Court’s discourse over time, in relation to specific factual scenarios and the interaction between the paragraphs containing those formulas. The hypothesis guiding this paper is that, although these formulas are relevant in the Court’s judgments and opinions to support arguments, they do not possess concrete content with directives on how to put into practice the human rights in question or how to interpret what it means for a person to have dignity.
Copyright (c) 2024 Helga Lell https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Coming Out of the Pension Closet: An Analysis From the Queer Theory of the Rulings of the Supreme Court of Justice in Relation to the Operation of the Survivor’s Pension in Same-sex Couples in Colombia
This article presents an analysis of the rulings issued by the Supreme Court of Justice - Labor Chamber and Labor Congestion Chamber - regarding the operationality of survivor pensions in same-sex couples. To achieve this, a qualitative methodology of jurisprudential review is employed to analyze the rules and sub-rules applied by the judges in resolving these cases, contrasting them with certain foundational ideas of queer legal theories. In this analytical exercise, the text elucidates how, within the dogmatic rules devised by the ordinary labor judge, there are emancipatory opportunities that escape the binary gender paradigm. One of the main conclusions drawn from this analysis is the progressive role played by the Labor Cassation Chamber and the Congestion Chamber within labor law, in formulating norms that acknowledge differentiated cohabitation for the acquisition of survivor pensions for same-sex couples.
Copyright (c) 2024 Juan Felipe Parra Rosas https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Environmental Displacement in Colombia: Challenges and Progress of Judgment T-369 of 2021 from the Constitutional Court
In the Judgment T-369 of 2021, the Constitutional Court of Colombia reviews a case of human displacement caused by the diversion of the Cauca River for the Pescadero Ituango Hydroelectric Project (Hidroituango). This constitutional decision highlights the various routes established by jurisprudence for managing environmental displacement. However, this research aims to demonstrate that the existing protocols for addressing environmental displacement are not sufficient, especially considering that the incorporation of this special category of human migration into the Colombian legal system is necessary. Giving prominence to these concepts would facilitate the creation of a comprehensive care pathway focused on every stage of the environmental catastrophe generated by human movement.
Copyright (c) 2024 Rosa Stephanie Ramírez Cerón https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Tensions in Social Integration Based on Access to Health and Decent Work for the Migrant Population in Santiago de Cali
Cali, Colombia has been a destination for migrants from Venezuela, either to serve as a transit point or a settlement for those seeking better opportunities. This complex situation, within the context of an intermediate city located in the Global South, has led to unprecedented institutional challenges related to the assurance of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR), and even more, requirements for social coexistence. This paper aims to elucidate tensions that have arisen in the social integration of the migrant population in Cali, Colombia, based on the analysis of their access to health and work rights. The primary reference for this exploration is drawn from oral accounts provided by Venezuelan migrant participants residing in the city.
Copyright (c) 2024 María Liliana Castillo-Castillo, Stephanie Oliveros Ortiz, Diana Fernández Mejía https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Methodology for Constitutional Interpretation from the Model of Mexican Electoral Justice
The article aims to analyze in perspective how constitutional interpretation influences electoral justice and the protection of fundamental rights of a political-electoral nature. A methodology is proposed for the correct and efficient use of constitutional and conventional interpretation by jurisdictional operators, with special emphasis on the analysis of the obstacles or technical barriers they face when carrying out constitutional-conventional regularity examinations. The conclusion was obtained that in electoral judicial practice there are many problems when maximizing or optimizing rights, so constitutional interpretation must be based on a consistent and credible examination of judicial argumentation and hermeneutics to enhance political-electoral rights and democratic principles in the framework of the democratic rule of law.
Copyright (c) 2024 José Ramón Narváez Hernández, Jesús Cadena Alcalá https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Legal Ideals: Lawmaking and Law Enforcement Primarily based on Community Social Life in Indonesia
The aim of this study is to conceptualize how lawmaking and law enforcement work together to serve society’s best interests. Historically, law has primarily functioned as a tool for social control and is extremely inflexible, making it impossible to properly uphold the core principles of justice implementation and enforcement. Law should evolve to become a tool for fostering social development, leading to contentment and the establishment of a just societal order. As a result, legal development should prioritize the desires and needs of the people. This is a socio-legal study wherein social phenomena are interpreted as the direction of legal development. Employing a conceptual approach and analyzing qualitative data derived from a literature review, our findings indicate a shift in people’s desires, particularly in Indonesia, influenced by legal establishments. With the desire to contribute their aspirations into the creation of law and serve as the participatory society in monitoring the way law enforcement is carried out, the development of legal thinking within society is evolving in a positive direction. Legal development must change the paradigm that has previously considered law merely as a mechanism of social control, as a result of societal changes. Both lawmaking and law enforcement should embrace a participatory society. Thus, the goal is to translate this legal ideal into practice by establishing a legal development that benefits society.
Copyright (c) 2023 Diya Ul Akmal, Fauzziyyah Azhar Ramadhan https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Withdrawal Right and Its Inconsistencies Within Colombian Legal System
In Colombia, Law 1480/2011, that establishes the consumer statute, includes several benefits for consumers which do not include exhaustive criteria that limit the exercise of their rights; therefore, this statute may violate the principle of Pacta Sunt Servanda. This law contains some prerogatives that exceed the consumption relationship, since it incorporates legal loopholes that violate the rights of producers and suppliers in Colombia. For example, absence of parameters and solid limits to allow differentiation between a consumption relationship and a business relationship. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the aim of this article is to discuss the withdrawal right and its consequences. This article studies whether the right of withdrawal contained in article 47 of Law 1480 of 2011 is aligned with other provisions of the Colombian legal system, and if this power blurs the autonomy of the will of the parties. Finally, it proposes some criteria that may be used by the legislator, to regulate more adequately the right of withdrawal.
Copyright (c) 2023 Maria Alejandra Sanabria Vélez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Ensuring Rights of Victims Under the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine: Current Issues and Prospects
Legal regulation and practical issues of ensuring of rights of victims under the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine are considered in the article. The criminal procedure legislation of Ukraine lacks legal regulation of the mandatory participation of a lawyer representing the victim in criminal proceedings. This situation puts the participants of proceedings in an unequal position. Victims during the trial and in court are unable to properly defend their legitimate interests due to lack of legal awareness. The authors also state that the participation of the victim’s representative in the conclusion of the conciliation agreement should be mandatory. The cases in which victims can receive free legal aid have been analyzed. It is proposed to define the cases of mandatory participation of the representative of victims in the current legislation of Ukraine.
Copyright (c) 2023 Inna Rakipova, Oleksandr Torbas, Vladlena Voloshyna, Denys Shylin, Anastasiia Pidgorodynska https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Transformation of Land Relations in Ukraine to Market Conditions
Land ownership issues are especially important due to the historical experience of land nationalization of Ukrainian peasants. The sphere of land relations in Ukraine has undergone a process of constant reform since the country’s independence. At the present stage, the abolition of the moratorium on the transfer of ownership of agricultural land is historic for Ukrainian citizens. In consequence, the clarity and transparency of legal procedures for the transfer of land ownership to citizens of Ukraine become particularly relevant. In connection with the European vector of Ukraine’s development and gradual economic integration with the European Union countries that have experience in the agricultural land market, it is important to find an appropriate legal model for regulating the circulation of agricultural land in Ukraine, using the experience of the European Union. Land lease relations, as a main means of using agricultural lands for a long time in Ukraine, are considered in the article. The adopted Law of Ukraine “On amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine concerning the circulation of agricultural lands” is analyzed. According to its provisions, the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land was finally canceled, which allowed landowners to freely dispose of their property. In the article, it is also proved that the main prospects for the development and functioning of the land market in Ukraine are: 1) foreign investment in Ukraine, 2) the possibility of free disposal of agricultural land plots, 3) attracting additional resources for local communities, 4) stimulating the agricultural sector, 5) increasing the efficiency of production on land.
Copyright (c) 2023 Mykhaylo Shulga, Marko Yurkov https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The Different Waves of Citizen Participation in the Constituent Process of 1991
This reflection article describes the different waves of citizen participation that occurred in the constituent process of 1991. It begins with the student movement of 1989, continues with the great national debate that took place in the working groups and the preparatory commissions, and ends with the National Constituent Assembly, the most pluralistic and multicultural in national history. It concludes that the Political Constitution of 1991 emerged from an unprecedented constituent process, which changed the way of making constitutions in Colombia.
Copyright (c) 2023 Mabel Londoño Jaramillo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The Autonomy Challenge: Examining the Pre-emption Thesis in Judicial Reasoning and Precedent
This article reflects on one of the challenges Gerald Postema’s account of the autonomy thesis poses to Raz’s pre-emption thesis in judicial practice and precedent. Certain flaws in the pre-emption thesis, as applied to courts, come to light upon analyzing the autonomy challenge, whereas some aspects of the former are better understood from the perspective of the latter. This work shows that, although these two theses seem to clash, the autonomy challenge leads instead to an alternative approach to the pre-emption thesis that allows exploring some disregarded relationships between judicial practical reasoning and precedent. Drawing from this Raz-Postema debate, I argue for an alternative reading of the autonomy challenge by introducing the hermeneutic strategy of courts (HeSCo) as a tool to analyze the role of officials as addressees of exclusionary legal directives and its explanatory force. The HeSCo ultimately unravels the paradox by holding the pre-emption thesis as central to the proper understanding of judicial practice and precedent.
Copyright (c) 2023 Sandra Gómora-Juárez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
La seguridad jurídica: entre la tradición y la renovación del derecho
La suerte del derecho en Colombia no es preocupación exclusiva de juristas; los miembros de la sociedad se sienten autorizados a opinar sobre un fenómeno presente en casi todos los ámbitos de sus vidas. Por eso en la actualidad escuchamos voces críticas que culpan a la inseguridad jurídica en materia económica por la ausencia de inversión extranjera y la huida de capitales del país. Estos factores impactana negativamente las actividades productivas, al generar desempleo, decrecimiento económico, y consecuencias similares. El año paado, a raizadel fallo de la Corte Constitucional que ordenó el reajuste salarial para los empleados públicos discriminados por la Ley 547 de 1999, las críticas se centraron en el papel de los jueces constitucionales.
Copyright (c) 2001 Diana Patricia Quintero Mosquera
A propósito de instituciones justas. La rehabilitación de la racionalidad moral en Rawls y Habermas
Si se me pidiera por adelantado enunciar los objetivos de este ensayo, diría que el primero es mostrar la forma como el filósofo norteamericano John Rawls y el alemán Jürgen Habermas hacen un uso de una razón construccionista y de una razón dialógica, respectivamente, para darle a la justicia una preeminencia moralque hace tiempo no tenía en la filosofía práctica. Pero ese es un objetivo más interesante para los historiadores de la filosofía que para los juristas, políticos, pensadores sociales y estudiantes de humanidades para quienes escribo este ensayo. A ellos mi segundo objetivo les puede interesar más: mostrar a la justicia como el concepto rector para establecer la moralidad de lo político y de lo jurídico. Para lograr ambos objetivos, poniendo más énfasis en el segundo, seguiré el siguiente orden. Comenzaré (I) mostrando lo que significó reivindicar el concepto moraljusticia en el siglo XX, un siglo difícil para la filosofía práctica de vocación normativa. Hecho esto, procederé a (II) mostrar el modo en que ambos pensadores intentan restaurar la moralidad como criterio de legitimidad de las instituciones públicas e intentaré (III) mostrar cómo ese criterio conecta lo constitucional y lo político.
Copyright (c) 2001 Delfín Ignacio Grueso
Los argumentos políticos y sociales a menudo recurren a reivindicaciones morales basadas en derechos intrínsecamente valiosos. Hace ya muchísimo tiempo que se invocan los derechos relacionados con la propiedad. Pero existen también otrostipos de derechos que han sido considerados como "innatos e inalienables", y la Declaración de Independencia de los Estados Unidos se refiere a "ciertos derechos inalienables", entre los cuales se cuentan "vida, libertad y la prosecución de lafelicidad". La Constitución de la India llega hasta mencionar el "derecho a los medios adecuados de vida". El "derecho a no sufrir hambre" ha sido invocado a menudo en discusiones recientes sobre la obligación de ayuda a los hambrientos.El derecho a poseer, usar y legar la propiedad que se haya adquirido legalmente es considerado a menudo como valioso intrínsecamente. De hecho, sin embargo, muchas de las defensas que de él se hacen parecen ser realmente de tipo instrumental; searguye, por ejemplo, que los derechos de propiedad hacen que la gente sea más libre para elegir una clase de vida más bien que otra.
La organización territorial del Estado en la Constitución de 1991. ¿Centralismo o autonomía?
Los argumentos políticos y sociales a menudo recurren a reivindicaciones morales basadas en derechos intrínsecamente valiosos. Hace ya muchísimo tiempo que se invocan los derechos relacionados con la propiedad. Pero existen también otrostipos de derechos que han sido considerados como ""innatos e inalienables", y la Declaración de Independencia de los Estados Unidos se refiere a "ciertos derechos inalienables", entre los cuales se cuentan "vida, libertad y la prosecución de lafelicidad". La Constitución de la India llega hasta mencionar el "derecho a los medios adecuados de vida". El "derecho a no sufrir hambre" ha sido invocado a menudo en discusiones recientes sobre la obligación de ayuda a los hambrientos.El derecho a poseer, usar y legar la propiedad que se haya adquirido legalmente es considerado a menudo como valioso intrínsecamente. De hecho, sin embargo, muchas de las defensas que de él se hacen parecen ser realmente de tipo instrumental; searguye, por ejemplo, que los derechos de propiedad hacen que la gente sea más libre para elegir una clase de vida más bien que otra.