Daniel Bonilla

Los Andes University (Colombia) | UNIANDES · Faculty of Law

Covering the precolonial period to the present, The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective provides a comprehensive overview of Latin American law, revealing the vast commonalities and differences within the continent as well as entanglements with countries around the world. Bringing together experts from across the Americas...

The article is divided into three parts. In the first part, I describe three of the most frequent answers to the question, why is it necessary, important, or urgent for technological innovation to be incorpo- rated into law schools? The first two answers are directly related to agents of the market that demand legal education: law students and law...

Este artículo examina la arquitectura conceptual de los derechos de la naturaleza. Para cumplir con este objetivo, se divide en tres partes. En la primera, analizo las estructuras conceptuales que dan forma a tres perspectivas paradigmáticas sobre los derechos de la naturaleza: la ecuatoriana, la boliviana y la neozelandesa. En particular, exploro...

La academia jurídica históricamente se ha ocupado con diligencia de examinar el conocimiento jurídico como una forma de interactuar, controlar o transformar el mundo. No obstante, se ha ocupado solo tangencialmente de los discursos y prácticas que constituyen las precondiciones para la creación del conocimiento jurídico, así como de aquellos que re...

The principle and practice of pro bono, or volunteer legal services for the poor and other marginalized groups, is an increasingly important feature of justice systems around the world. Pro bono initiatives now exist in more than eighty countries – including Colombia, Portugal, Nigeria, and Singapore – and the list keeps growing. Covering the sprea...

The history of constitutional law in Latin America offers a mosaic of national histories, political experiments, and institutional transitions. No matter how distinctive and country-specific these histories and trends might be, this handbook shows that there are a set of commonalities that transcend the geographical contiguity of these countries. T...

This chapter aims to describe and analyse the conceptual and legal structure of multicultural Latin American constitutions. It seeks to present and examine the axes that shape the normative framework that recognizes cultural difference and the way in which intercultural relations are regulated. To achieve this, it offers three theses. First, it arg...

El objetivo de este artículo es describir y analizar los patrones y elementos constitucionales que estructuran los procesos de descolonización. Más precisamente, el artículo presenta los siguientes cuatro argumentos. Primero, los patrones discursivos y prácticos estructurales que atraviesan los procesos constitucionales descoloniales giran en torno...

Law is culture, not its consequence. This is one of the fundamental premises of the cultural analysis of law. The content of the category ‘culture’, however, is one of the most elusive in the humanities: it is not easy to specify its limits or make explicit its fundamental components. It is not easy to specify either what should be the most fruitfu...

In this interview, Paul Kahn discusses central aspects of his approach to the academic study of law. On the one hand, he reflects on the identity of the cultural analysis of law. In this regard, he points out how his approach differs from other forms of legal scholarship, in general, and from other cultural perspectives of law, in particular. He al...

The article is divided into three parts. In the first part, I describe three of the most frequent answers to the question of why is it necessary, important, or urgent for technological innovation to be incorporated into law schools? The first two answers are directly related to agents of the market that demand legal education: law students and law...

El derecho de acceso a la justicia es fundamental para el marco conceptual en el que se fundamentan las democracias liberales. Este libro tiene dos objetivos principales que se relacionan directamente con esta premisa. El primero, examinar de manera crítica los fundamentos teóricos del derecho de acceso a la justicia. Para cumplir con este fin, se...

Este libro tiene dos objetivos principales, como lo hemos indicado en las páginas anteriores. El primer objetivo es intentar examinar de manera crítica los fundamentos teóricos del derecho de acceso a la justicia. Este derecho ha sido estudiado ampliamente desde una perspectiva constitucional y empírica. Sin embargo, teniendo en cuenta la relevanci...

Este artículo tiene como objetivo examinar cuatro de los modelos paradigmáticos de investigación en el derecho ambiental. El texto se divide en cuatro partes para cumplir con este objetivo. En la primera examino críticamente el modelo de la sistematización; en la segunda, el de la reforma; en la tercera, el de la explicación, y en la cuarta, el de...

Much has been written, discussed, advocated and litigated about human rights and the environment over the last two decades. This comprehensive volume of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law offers fresh perspectives to the conversation by focusing on four subjects that shed new light on the subject of environmental human rights: the challeng...

The article describes and analyses the conceptual structure of the principle of separation of powers. As a consequence, it describes and analyzes its premises, the basic concepts it constructs, the particular type of subject it creates, and the notions of time and space it forms. The article is divided into four parts. The first part presents the k...

En este artículo examino los orígenes, estructura y dinámicas del trabajo jurídico pro bono que hacen los abogados en Brasil. En particular, ofrezco los siguientes tres argumentos. Primero, afirmo que el discurso y prácticas pro bono de Brasil son un transplante jurídico que no ha experimentado todavía variaciones en el contexto de recepción. Segun...

El objetivo de este artículo es describir, analizar y explicar el discurso y las prácticas pro bono articulados e implementados en Brasil entre 2005 y 2017. Para cumplir con los objetivos mencionados, este artículo está dividido en tres partes. En la primera se ofrece el contexto en el que está inmerso el trabajo pro bono en Brasil. Esta sección de...

Resumen En este artículo examino los orígenes, estructura y dinámicas del trabajo jurídico pro bono que hacen los abogados en Brasil. En particular, ofrezco los siguientes tres argumentos. Primero, afirmo que el discurso y prácticas pro bono de Brasil son un transplante jurídico que no ha experimentado todavía variaciones en el contexto de recepció...

Resumen El objetivo de este artículo es describir, analizar y explicar el discurso y las prácticas pro bono articulados e implementados en Brasil entre 2005 y 2017. Para cumplir con los objetivos mencionados, este artículo está dividido en tres partes. En la primera se ofrece el contexto en el que está inmerso el trabajo pro bono en Brasil. Esta se...

El derecho es cultura, no su consecuencia. Esta es una de las premisas fundamentales del análisis cultural del derecho. No obstante, el contenido de la categoría cultura es uno de los más elusivos en las humanidades: no es fácil precisar los límites que la componen o describir sus contenidos centrales. Tampoco es fácil precisar cuál debería ser la...

The production, exchange and use of legal knowledge are subject to a political economy. These processes are governed by a series of rules and principles that determine the conditions allowing the creation, commerce and consumption of legal theories, doctrines and practices. Consequently, this political economy is not neutral; it constructs a specif...

The Ecuadorian and Bolivian multicultural and environmental constitutions are structured around the following three elements: the principles of plurinationality and interculturality; the rights of nature; and the principle of buen vivir. These three elements are innovatively articulated and creatively linked in these two political charters. No othe...

Cambridge Core - Environmental Law - Perspectives on Environmental Law Scholarship - edited by Ole W. Pedersen

This article aims to examine four paradigmatic models of environ- mental law scholarship. The article is divided into four parts to meet this objective. In the first part, I critically examine the model of systematization; in the second, the model of reform; in the third, the model of explanation; and in the fourth, the model of understanding. This...

The article provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical analysis of pro bono legal discourse and practices in Latin America. This article seeks to describe and analyze the conceptual architecture of the transnational discourse on pro bono work. Using these theoretical tools, the article also describes and analyzes the pro bono discourse and...

Legal knowledge is a commodity directed by a political economy constituted by precise rules and principles. Examining the political economy of legal knowledge contributes to understanding routine practices that determine ways we create, exchange, and use legal knowledge. This chapter describes a decade’s worth of dynamic programming led by two law...

El capítulo examina algunos de los elementos centrales del mapa conceptual y práctico donde están situados el derecho de interés público y la educación jurídica experiencial. En la primera parte exploro los conceptos, fines y prácticas centrales del derecho de interés público contemporáneo. En la segunda, la más importante del texto, analizo los ob...

The book is divided into three parts. In the first part, authors examine the relationship between Latin American and US constitutionalism. In particular, they examine the widespread idea that Latin America is a mere space for the reproduction and dissemination of US and European constitutional production and that the United States is a context for...

The article proceeds in three parts. The first, the articles’ analytical heart, considers the political economy of legal knowledge. It describes briefly the free market of legal ideas and the colonial model for the production of legal knowledge. It illustrates how these two models work using examples from our “South-North Partnerships” (SNP), that...

The article presents a genealogy of Colombian legal clinics. The article offers a narrative that allows for a better understanding of the emergence of legal clinics in the country's legal system, its transformations and the theoretical foundations that support them. The article argues that legal clinics are a transplant of US experiential legal edu...

Paul W. Kahn ha sido uno de los principales impulsores de los estudios culturales del derecho en los Estados Unidos. Esta aproximación a la investigación jurídica, poco discutida en América Latina, tiene como principal objetivo examinar las estructuras simbólicas que constituyen la imaginación jurídico-política de los individuos. En esta entrevista...

The article presents a genealogy of Colombian legal clinics. The article offers a narrative that allows for a better understanding of the emergence of legal clinics in the country's legal system, its transformations and the theoretical foundations that support them. The article argues that legal clinics are a transplant of US experiential legal edu...

p>El artículo describe y analiza la estructura conceptual del principio de separación de poderes. En consecuencia, describe y analiza las premisas de las que parte, los conceptos básicos que construye, el tipo de sujeto particular que crea y las nociones de tiempo y espacio que compone. El artículo se divide en cuatro partes. En la primera parte, s...

p>El derecho internacional ha sido reiteradamente cuestionado por su carácter excluyente y sus usos imperiales. Estas críticas describen de manera precisa muchas de sus estructuras y dinámicas. Sin embargo, el derecho internacional puede ser un instrumento útil para proteger los intereses legítimos de los Estados del Sur Global, en general, y de lo...

The unprecedented degradation of the planet's vital ecosystems is among the most pressing issues confronting the international community. Despite the proliferation of legal instruments to combat environmental problems, conflicts between rich and poor nations (the North-South divide) have compromised international environmental law, leading to deadl...

The production, exchange and use of legal knowledge are subject to a political economy. These processes are governed by a series of rules and principles that determine the conditions allowing the creation, commerce and consumption of legal theories, doctrines and practices. Consequently, this political economy is not neutral; it constructs a specif...

Within the 1991 Colombian Constitution there is a tension between cultural unity and cultural diversity. This tension is constituted by two analytically distinguishable but practically intertwined conflicts of principles and rights. The clash between the constitutional recognition of the indigenous groups' diverse moral and political principles (so...

The grammar of modern constitutionalism determines the structure and limits of key components of contemporary legal and political discourse. This grammar constitutes an important part of our legal and political imagination. It determines what questions we ask about our polities, as well as the range of possible answers to these questions. The funda...

Na América Latina, predomina o modelo formalista de ensino jurídico e concepção do direito, que o idealiza como emanação exclusiva da legislação e conjunto de normas piramildamente escalonado e mecanicamente aplicável, sem conjeturas acerca de sua moralidade, ensinado nas faculdades por meio de exposição teórica do conteúdo legal. Este artigo prete...

In this article, i assess the limits of liberal multiculturalism to describe and evaluate the reality of contemporary indians. Liberal multiculturalism structures indian identity appealing to the following five categories: ancestral territory, rural territory, wild nature, atavic cultural practices, and subsistence economy. This way of understandin...

The classical liberal conception of property dominates the modern legal and political imagination. The idea that property is a subjective and nearly absolute right controls the way in which much of modern law and politics understand this institution. Despite its ubiquity in the modern legal and political consciousness, the classical liberal concept...

ESTE TEXTO EXPLORA LAS RELACIONES ENTRE DERECHO Y JUSTICIA, CENTRALES en dos novelas de Schlink: El engaño de Selb y La justicia de Selb. El derecho y la justicia aparecen en estas obras siguiendo tres ejes que se entrecruzan. En primera instancia, un eje compuesto por dos categorías: validez y justicia. En segunda instancia, uno conformado por las...

The articles collected in this volume critically examine the hegemony of market fundamentalism in law, politics, and social theory. They question the underlying premises of market fundamentalism as well as the social, economic, cultural and environmental consequences of policies inspired by this ideology. The authors represent several disciplines (...

THE GRAMMAR OF MODERN CONSTITUTIONALISM DETERMINES the structure and limits of key components of contemporary legal and political discourse. This grammar constitutes an important part of our legal and political imagination. It determines what questions we ask about our polities, as well as the range of possible answers to these questions. This gram...

The Indian Supreme Court, the South African Constitutional Court and the Colombian Constitutional Court have been among the most important and creative courts in the Global South. In Asia, Africa and Latin America, they are seen as activist tribunals that have contributed (or attempted to contribute) to the structural transformation of the public a...

The essay presents and justifies the following three theses. First, I argue that the relationships between public interest law clinics in the Global North and South reproduce typically unequal relations between the center and the periphery of legal academia. The exchange between clinics of the Global North and South reiterates, reinforces, and proj...

En el 2008, la Corte Constitucional colombiana enfrentó un problema jurídico y político de gran importancia para las comunidades indígenas y afrocolombianas: determinar las características y límites del derecho que tienen estas minorías culturales para que las medidas legislativas que las afectan de manera directa les sean consultadas previamente....

Legal monism, that is, the idea that there must be one and only one centralized hierarchical legal system in each state, has dominated the political and legal imagination of the West. There must be, argue the monists, one sole legal order at the state level in order to protect the principles of equality, legal security, legality, and political unit...

El marco jurídico de las negritudes en Colombia enfrenta dos problemas conceptuales que tienen efectos políticos prácticos importantes y que constituyen el objeto de estudio de este artículo. En primera instancia, este conjunto de normas es cuestionable desde el punto de vista del principio de igualdad y la justicia distributiva. No es claro por qu...