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The Colombian Consumer Act --Law 1480, 2011-- still generates relevant questions about how to explain the protection system of users. That said, 'it is important to study the meaning and effect of the principles of the Colombian Consumer Act --article 1--' that involve the essential and basic issues of Consumer Law in this country. With this goal in mind, this paper aims to examine the implications of those principles in order to think about a Consumer Law in Colombia that suggest an organized and harmonic system of rules aiming for the protection of the consumers. This is because; the mentioned principles and the Colombian Consumer Act are the mainstay of this new part of law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, which lies between the limits of the dogmatic and philosophy of law, seeks to analyze from different categories the process of judicial, legislative and academic constitutionalization of the Colombian legal system, and as a result, offers the essential features of a model of constructivist constitutionalization as an alternative to the idealistic and analytical models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rules on the protection of the weaker party have had an important and strong impact in the civil law through the implementation of new and specific juridical instruments of safeguard before unknown to the Italian Civil code. Among these, there is the peculiar sanction of the relative nullity of protection as an instrument to defend the weaker party. This paper, after highlighting the scope and the main features of this sanction, shows describes illustrates the possible and desirable developments in the provisions of the protection of the weaker party. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is a bibliographical overview which constitutes the author's first document presented for his PhD in Law from the Universidad Javeriana. It presents the latest studies on formalisation and judicialisation of arbitration in some legal systems in Latin America. For this purpose, it will deal with matters such as the definition of the legal nature of arbitration, monism and dualism in legislative structures, the constitutionalisation of the figure and phenomenon of judicial intervention. [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]

The present paper proposes the creation of a model for the harmonisation of contract law in Latin America. For this purpose two conditions are relevant: the factual assessment of the phenomenon of the disassembling of traditional contract law and the assessment of the creation of a common Latin American legal culture. Based on them, a singular method of harmonisation can be constructed, the scope of which is to reduce legal dispersion in Latin American contract law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]