By an address titled “Las Sentencias Interpretativas de los Tribunales Constitucionales (Interpretative Sentences of the Constitutional Courts), Dr. Eduardo Montealegre Lynett, Colombia Attorney General, has opened the XXXIII Colombian Congress of Procedural Law, which is held in the Julio César Turbay Ayala Convention Center in Cartagena and will be closed next September 14.
Each year, this academic venue is organized by Instituto Colombiano de Derecho Procesal (Colombian Institute of Procedural Law), with the aim of evaluating events that have taken place and projecting a future of judicial proceedings.
In this occasion, subjects such as: Proceedings and legal security, temporary efficiency of sentences pronounced by Constitutional Courts, fundamental law of the effective “Tutela” (abbreviated proceedings held by a judge in Colombia), the reality of remands or preventive detention measures, among others, are matter of the lecture to eminent Colombian, Spanish, Chilean, Peruvian, Brazilian and Argentinians jurists.
Dr. Humberto Sierra Porto, Constitutional Court Judge, Dr. Lorenzo Bujosa Vadel, Univesidad de Salamanca (Spain), professor, Dr. Luis Guilherme Marioni (Brasil) and Dr. Jairo Parra Quijano, president of The Colombian Institute of Procedural Law, among others lecturers.