THE DECLARATION OF THE ATRATO RIVER AS A SUBJECT OF RIGHTS, THE DISCUSSION BETWEEN BIOCENTRISM AND HUMANISM IN THE COLOMBIAN CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONCEPT OF SUBJECT OF RIGHTS.

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LUIS FERNANDO ORTEGA GUZMÁN

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Since the birth of the 1991 Constitution, the Colombian legal system has been responsible for developing a whole construction of fundamental rights around the concept of human dignity, which serves as the central core of the legal system. Through sentence T 622 of 2016 the Colombian Constitutional Court recognized the Atrato River, the main river tributary of the department of Choco as a rights-holding entity; the present research seeks to analyze said figure and its legal basis to verify whether or not this represents an expansion of the concept of human dignity through the legal and political Biocentric trends of Latin America in the last 20 years or if it rather represents the application of the criterion of human dignity in an extensive manner.

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LUIS FERNANDO ORTEGA GUZMÁN

LUIS FERNANDO ORTEGA GUZMÁN[1]

MISAEL TIRADO ACERO [2]

 

[1]Master in Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory from the Universidad Libre de Bogotá, Lawyer from the Universidad Católica de Colombia, Professor - Researcher at the Fundación Universitaria UniCervantes, School of Law, Research Group "Communitas Sapiensae". E-mail: lfo248@live.com ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4862-4854  

[2] Post-doctorate in Law from the University of Buenos Aires. D. in Legal Sociology and Political Institutions from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. Sociologist of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Professor - Researcher at the Universidad La Gran Colombia, Faculty of Law and Political and Social Sciences, Research Group "Contemporary Criminal Law. Professor at Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Faculty of Law, Campus, Research Group "Red de Estudios Sociojurídicos y Políticas Públicas - RESCYPP". Peer evaluator Minciencias, Peer evaluator Consejo Nacional de Acreditación - CNA, member of the Evaluation Board of Business Administration and Law of CONACES - Ministry of Higher Education. United Nations Consultant. Email: misaeltirado@gmail.com ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-1702

 

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