Los servicios públicos domiciliarios y el Estado regulador

La regulación económica por parte del estado constituye una alternativa para conciliar la búsqueda del bienestar social y la equidad con la eficiencia del sistema de mercado. Sin embargo, la excesiva generación de normas por parte del Estado puede terminar siendo ineficaz y ocasionar crisis entre el sistema político y el jurídico. El artículo explora el problema y propone una línea de investigación centrada en el sector de servicios públicos domiciliarios y basados en una nueva perspectiva que da prioridad a la percepción de los operadores

Local maladies, global remedies: reclaiming the right to health in Latin America

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What could a strengthened right to health bring to the post-2015 health development agenda?: interrogating the role of the minimum core concept in advancing essential global health needs.

BACKGROUND: Global health institutions increasingly recognize that the right to health should guide the formulation of replacement goals for the Millennium Development Goals, which expire in 2015. However, the right to health's contribution is undercut by the principle of progressive realization, which links provision of health services to available resources, permitting states to deny even basic levels of health coverage domestically and allowing international assistance for health to remain entirely discretionary. DISCUSSION: To prevent progressive realization from undermining both domestic and international responsibilities towards health, international human rights law institutions developed the idea of non-derogable "minimum core" obligations to provide essential health services. While minimum core obligations have enjoyed some uptake in human rights practice and scholarship, their definition in international law fails to specify which health services should fall within their scope, or to specify wealthy country obligations to assist poorer countries. These definitional gaps undercut the capacity of minimum core obligations to protect essential health needs against inaction, austerity and illegitimate trade-offs in both domestic and global action. If the right to health is to effectively advance essential global health needs in these contexts, weaknesses within the minimum core concept must be resolved through innovative research on social, political and legal conceptualizations of essential health needs. SUMMARY: We believe that if the minimum core concept is strengthened in these ways, it will produce a more feasible and grounded conception of legally prioritized health needs that could assist in advancing health equity, including by providing a framework rooted in legal obligations to guide the formulation of new health development goals, providing a baseline of essential health services to be protected as a matter of right against governmental claims of scarcity and inadequate international assistance, and empowering civil society to claim fulfillment of their essential health needs from domestic and global decision-makers

Collective Litigation of Environmental Rights in Colombia: An Empirical Study

This paper presents the results of an empirical study that systematized environmental judicial opinions handed down by Colombia’s highest administrative Court —Consejo de Estado— over a 17-year period (1998-2015). Thanks to a research grant, the authors and a team of coders systematized, using state-of-the art content analysis methodologies, more than 250 opinions handed down by Colombia’s highest administrative Court. The results presented in this paper show the most important trends of collective environmental litigation in Colombia: types of plaintiffs and defendants; type of environmental resources involved in the case; plaintiffs’ success rates; most litigious regions and cities; overall effects of economic incentives on the type of litigation, among several other subjects. This paper concludes that collective environmental litigation has been instrumental to protect environmental resources in Colombia, one the most biodiverse countries in the world. Finally, the paper concludes that the elimination in 2011 of the economic incentive in favor of litigants did not favor public interest litigation

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This paper presents the results of an empirical study that systematized environmental judicial opinions handed down by Colombia's highest administrative Court-Consejo de Estado- over a 17-year period (1998-2015). Thanks to a research grant, the authors and a team of coders systematized, using state-of-The art content analysis methodologies, more than 250 opinions handed down by Colombia's highest administrative Court. The results presented in this paper show the most important trends of collective environmental litigation in Colombia: Types of plaintiffs and defendants; type of environmental resources involved in the case; plaintiffs' success rates; most litigious regions and cities; overall effects of economic incentives on the type of litigation, among several other subjects. This paper concludes that collective environmental litigation has been instrumental to protect environmental resources in Colombia, one the most biodiverse countries in the world. Finally, the paper concludes that the elimination in 2011 of the economic incentive in favor of litigants did not favor public interest litigation

Collective Litigation of Environmental Rights in Colombia: An Empirical Study

This paper presents the results of an empirical study that systematized environmental judicial opinions handed down by Colombia’s highest administrative Court —Consejo de Estado— over a 17-year period (1998-2015). Thanks to a research grant, the authors and a team of coders systematized, using state-of-the art content analysis methodologies, more than 250 opinions handed down by Colombia’s highest administrative Court. The results presented in this paper show the most important trends of collective environmental litigation in Colombia: types of plaintiffs and defendants; type of environmental resources involved in the case; plaintiffs’ success rates; most litigious regions and cities; overall effects of economic incentives on the type of litigation, among several other subjects. This paper concludes that collective environmental litigation has been instrumental to protect environmental resources in Colombia, one the most biodiverse countries in the world. Finally, the paper concludes that the elimination in 2011 of the economic incentive in favor of litigants did not favor public interest litigation

Los servicios públicos domiciliarios y el Estado regulador

La regulación económica por parte del estado constituye una alternativa para conciliar la búsqueda del bienestar social y la equidad con la eficiencia del sistema de mercado. Sin embargo, la excesiva generación de normas por parte del Estado puede terminar siendo ineficaz y ocasionar crisis entre el sistema político y el jurídico. El artículo explora el problema y propone una línea de investigación centrada en el sector de servicios públicos domiciliarios y basados en una nueva perspectiva que da prioridad a la percepción de los operadores

Los servicios públicos domiciliarios y el Estado regulador

La regulación económica por parte del estado constituye una alternativa para conciliar la búsqueda del bienestar social y la equidad con la eficiencia del sistema de mercado. Sin embargo, la excesiva generación de normas por parte del Estado puede terminar siendo ineficaz y ocasionar crisis entre el sistema político y el jurídico. El artículo explora el problema y propone una línea de investigación centrada en el sector de servicios públicos domiciliarios y basados en una nueva perspectiva que da prioridad a la percepción de los operadores

Derechos fundamentales y consecuencias económicas

Este artículo examina la confrontación entre las teorías deontológicas y consecuencialistas en el debate entre juristas y economistas sobre la jurisprudencia económica de la Corte Constitucional colombiana. El argumento de fondo es que pese a que ambas teorías se separan en muchos puntos importantes, en sus versiones ¿integradas¿ no son irreconciliables. Muestra que la Corte Constitucional tiende a adoptar una visión deontológica ¿integrada¿ en su jurisprudencia económica y que si el establishment económico empleara argumentos derivados de una visión consecuencialista integrada se empezaría a cerrar la brecha entre las maneras de pensar de los juristas y los economistas