Chairs:

• Ramiro Bejarano Guzmán: dprocesal@uexternado.edu.co
• Adriana Rojas Ciro: adriana.rojas4@uexternado.edu.co
• Laura Huertas Montero: laura.huertas@uexternado.edu.co
• Fredy Toscano López: fredy.toscano@uexternado.edu.co
• Luis Guillermo Acero: luis.acero@uexternado.edu.co
• Camilo Valenzuela Bernal: camilo.valenzuela@uexternado.edu.co.

SPEAKERS

Fernando	Medina Álvarez
Gabriel	Ravelo Franco
Jalil Alejandro	Magaldi Serna
M L	RIVERO ARENAS
Niels Jyeyson	Apaza Jallo

Judicial tribunals around the world play a pivotal role in the development and sustainability of constitutions. The crisis of political institutions and the reconfiguration of the Executive and Legislative powers in the current political and ideological climate reveal the importance of studying the function of judges as guarantors of the individual and collective rights of citizens and, ultimately, of the democratic values upon which society is sustained.

Distinct phenomena of an institutional, political, normative, and technological nature condition the manner in which the adjudicative function is exercised, posing significant contemporary challenges.

This workshop intends to analyse the influence of these phenomena on the exercise of the judicial function as a democratic value, as well as the response of judges to the crisis of democratic values, which constitutes nothing less than the guarantee of the human right of access to justice as a response to the challenges of modern constitutionalism.

Interested parties are invited to submit their abstracts addressing this general theme and developing, in a special manner, problems pertaining to:

Procedural guarantees in a democracy.o propósito analizar la influencia de estos fenómenos en el ejercicio de la función judicial como valor democrático, así como la respuesta de los jueces a la crisis de los valores democráticos, lo que constituye nada menos que la garantía del derecho humano de acceso a la justicia como respuesta a los desafíos del constitucionalismo moderno.

The motivation of judicial and arbitral decisions as a source of legitimacy for the judicial function and a guarantee of access to justice.

Challenges of digital justice.

Legislative powers of judges and limits to the judicial function.

Criteria for the selection of judicial judgments for review by High Courts (docket selection).

Exercise of the jurisdictional function vis-à-vis counter-majoritarian and pro-majoritarian political powers.

Judicial clientelism and the crisis in the judicial career.

Delegation of jurisdictional functions to the Executive Power and private parties.

Judicial abuse.