Julian Daniel López Murcia

• DPhil in Politics (Oxford) MSc in Regulation (LSE)
• University of La Sabana

How can we explain the emergence and evolvement of the overlaps between the Colombian Water and Sanitation Regulatory Commission (CRA) and the Constitutional Court? This paper shows the dominant literature's limitations in explaining these overlaps. By contrast, I argue that the “regulatory enterprise” approach developed by Tony Prosser (2010) and...

Comparative constitutional law scholarship has largely ignored political institutions. It has therefore failed to realize that radical differences in the configuration of political institutions should bear upon the way courts do their jobs. Parting from a case study of the Colombian Constitutional Court, this paper develops a theory of judicial rol...

Dans cet article, on analyse si l�actuel régime tarifaire des services publics domiciliaires a ou non un effet favorable sur l�accomplissement de la clause de progressivité des Droits Économiques, Sociaux et Culturels (DESC) et les conséquences juridiques de cela. L�analyse méthodologique basée sur l�interprétation des obligations dérivées du droit...

Comparative constitutional law scholarship has largely ignored political institutions. It has therefore failed to realize that radical differences in the configuration of political institutions should bear upon the way courts do their jobs. Parting from a case study of the Colombian Constitutional Court, this paper develops a theory of judicial rol...

The American Convention on Human Rights embodied in an extensive way, the protection of the use and enjoyment of property, including land property. The Inter-American Court of Humans Rights has interpreted this right in an evolutionary way, according with the particular necessities of the people under the jurisdiction of the State Parties of the Co...

En efecto, el contenido que aquí presentamos corresponde, hasta donde nos fue posible, con las preguntas que surgieron de manera espontánea de nuestros estudiantes: ¿cuál es el origen de los hoy denominados derechos humanos?, ¿por qué se habla siempre de derechos de distintas “generaciones”?, ¿son igualmente exigibles los derechos civiles y polític...

This article analyzes whether or not the current public utilities rates regulations have a favorable effect on the compliance of the progressivity clause of the Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) and its legal consequences thereof. The methodological approach is based on the interpretation of the legal obligations derived from the Internati...

This Research is the result of the project "La economía en los derechos humanos" of the line Globalización y desarrollo del derecho internacional, of the group of investigation Centro de Estudios de Derecho Internacional y Derecho Global "Francisco Suárez S.J." (acknowledged by Colciencias -A category-). The authors carried out a research about the...

This article is the result of the project “La economía en los derechos humanos” (Economy in Human Rights) of the line “Globalización y Desarrollo del Derecho Internacional” (Globalization and the Development of International Law), of the research team Centro de Estudios de Derecho Internacional y Derecho Global “Francisco Suárez, S.J.” (acknowledge...

This Research is the result of the project “La economía en los derechos humanos” of the line "Globalización y desarrollo del derecho internacional", of the group of investigation "Centro de Estudios de Derecho Internacional y Derecho Global “Francisco Suárez S.J.” (acknowledged by Colciencias –A category–). The authors carried out a research about...

On the first part of this article, the authors carry out a critical review of the “state of the art” regarding the jurisdictions denominated “tax havens”, its identification, the consequences its use has over the countries with an ordinary taxation system (Hereinafter Ordinary Taxation Countries) and the tools by virtue of which organizations like...

Con ocasión de las recientes sentencias en los casos Masacre de Mapiripán y Masacres de Ituango, en las que la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos estudió casos de víctimas de desplazamiento forzado, se ha retomado el debate relativo a si las políticas públicas de asistencia a la población desplazada deben tenerse en cuenta al momento de deter...

Discurso pronunciado en la inauguración del Concurso Iberoamericano de Derecho Internacional y Derechos Humanos Francisco Suárez S.J. de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, el 26 de septiembre de 2009, en el Auditorio Luis Carlos Galán.

On the first part of this article, the authors carry out a critical review of the “state of the art” regarding the jurisdictions denominated “tax havens”, its identification, the consequences its use has over the countries with an ordinary taxation system (Hereinafter Ordinary Taxation Countries) and the tools by virtue of which organizations like...

Due to the recent judgments in the Mapiripán Massacre and Ituango Massacres, in which the Interamerican Court on Human Rights studied cases where victims were forcefully displaced, the debate concerning whether or not the public assistance policies can influence victims reparations, has been retaken. In the Ituango case, the Interamerican Court not...