Vol 4, No 8 (2005)

The idea of initiating a discussion about the fact that if abortion is a necessary right in our current society, so that any woman has to face such a dilemma, is not against “nasciturus” protection rights. On the contrary, it is a reflection which leads to conciliating prospective mother and prospective baby. Both should have the same opportunity, the former to decide about her We, and the latter to be developed without any kind of obstacle. Once there are social alternatives in Colombia for taking care of children, the decision could be also shared with the government. If there were not such possibilities, as the woman is the one who will have the responsibility for her children, they should be the ones to decide about aborting or not. It is not abortion specifically, but the right to decide which is granted to women by Constitution, so they could freely develop their personalities

The phenomenon of subregional integration, like faithful characteristic of the phenomenon of the globalization, is cowsing the evolutionary processes of many countries wich produces, as well, a fast process of transformation in the human relations, that does not let have impact, or directly or indirectly in our society and our development. We are trying to understand the role that plays Colombia within some models of integration of countries by means a comparative study, like the one of the Andean Community of Nations and the model of integration of the European Continent. This will allowto detect the directives us that will mark the development of our nation like to glimpse the characteristics of the model, in wich, the world is being entered and that will to the destiny of the International Community in the next decades.

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.

The expenses which Government has for sentences and conciliations from dangerous activities in defense has been a topic to be worried about at the interior of Ministry of Defense due to the large amounts of money paid by the use of fire weapons, connatural activity to the constitutional mission developed by Public Force. Consequently, it was necessary to carry out an investigation in both Ministry of Defense and National Police to determine the causes for increasing these sentences, and to present some recommendations to prevent them.

This article refers to the main manifestations Lope de Vega has with respect to the Common Law in some of his comedies in which he mentioned some famous lawyers, styles, and practices developed in the complex Spanish juridical world of Modern Age which inherited many bajomedievales elements.