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This paper explores the discussion about the international legal status of the "Acuerdo Final para la Terminación del Conflicto y la Construcción de una Paz Estable y Duradera" and the legal effects that such status would produce under constitutional law in Colombia. Thus, it analyses the scope of public international law sources with the aim of evaluate if the beforementioned Acuerdo complies with the requierements in order to be considered a legal source under public international law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On April 11th 2012, the Colombian Supreme Court of Justice qualified as dangerous activities the provision of medical services, even though it also established the parameters according to which this type of activities should be evaluated and in which the presumption of guilt is included. The fact that the execution of medical services must comply with such guidelines supposes a change regarding the way jurisprudence has so far evaluated this regimen. Consequently, and by way of a methodology mainly centred on the analysis of the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court and particularly on the ruling aforementioned, the present research paper intends to show that notwithstanding the way medical activities were qualified in the ruling, the regimen regarding them continues to enclose subjective responsibility and the presumption of innocence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

France revised its Constitution in 1971, but the modification was not carried out by one of the organs authorised by that same text. Colombia replaced its Constitution in 1991, but did these constitutional changes comply with the laws of the time? The present paper is an overview of these juridical transformations from the point of view of the theory of juridical revolution, which is applied in order to determine the new legal basis of each of these legal systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to explore the relation between foreign investment and forced Migration in the context of Colombian armed conflict. Through the illustration of recent cases, it shows the various forms in which the operation of multinational corporations has generated adverse effects to the vulnerable communities located at their area of influence, thus generating processes of involuntary human mobility. In that way, it is established that there is a symbiotic relation between conflict and development, affecting the structure and scope of the norms for both the protection of forced migrants and accountability for human rights violations. This is so because there is an economic interest that constrains the recognition of the above-mentioned cases under such legal sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the first Japanese immigrants in Colombia (1922-1936). This research is a compilation of legal resolutions dictated in the 1886 Colombia's Republic Constitution towards immigration. Particularly, this research points out debates around the improvement of the race project through promoting alien immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. To come up with such a compilation, reviewing primary official sources (laws and decrees), discourses and related literature was fundamental. The analysis of the research shows that there is a correlation between diverse laws that allowed or restricted aliens to enter the country. In addition the debates taking place in different groups of the local society around the benefits and disadvantages of letting immigrants enter the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]