Keywords
judicial precedent
jurisprudence
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Abstract
This article is a product of the research project called The usage of arguments by the highest judicial organs in Colombia (El uso de los argumentos por parte de los órganos judiciales de cierre en Colombia), among the line of constitutional law and society of the group Public Law Studies, Category A, Colciencias, directed by the teacher Lina Marcela Escobar Martínez, PhD., with the participation as co-researcher Danny Marrero Avendaño, as well as young
researchers Sergio Rojas Quiñones y Sebastian Mantilla Blanco, law students at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. This Project began in January 2008, and is to be completed by 2010, with the Javerianas financial aid.
This is an investigation article that provides some advances concerning the methodology applied for the project, inserted in the group of scientific interest leaded by the Universities of Siena and Bordeaux, as well as some concepts that belong to the researchs theoretical framework, which is the reason why no definite results are presented.
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