Apuntes sobre codificación y costumbre en la historia del derecho colombiano

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Mauricio García Villegas

Abstract

This essay refers to the authoritarianism and to the inefficiency of Colombian and Latin American law. Here it is intended to show that these traits have been maintained in spite of political revolutions and changes in writing and conception of law. The change from a situation in which juridical custom prevailed (in the colonial period) to another one in which code and legislation prevailed (the Republic), did not help in either to lessen or eliminate above mentioned characteristics.

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García Villegas, M. (2005). Apuntes sobre codificación y costumbre en la historia del derecho colombiano. Opinión Jurídica, 4(8), 53–72. Retrieved from https://revistas.udem.edu.co/index.php/opinion/article/view/1277

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Mauricio García Villegas

Abogado, Post-doctoral studies: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Catholic University of New Lovaina, Belgium, profesor de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia