Chairs:

• Liliana Ortiz Bolaños liliana.ortiz@javerianacali.edu.co
• Martha Cecilia Paz marpaz5corte@gmail.com
• James Coral Lucero jicoral@javerianacali.edu.co
• Juan Pablo Domínguez Angulo juanpdominguez@javerianacali.edu.co
• Vaidotas Vaičaitis vaidotas.vaicaitis@tf.vu.lt

SPEAKERS

Flor de los Angeles	León Chinchilla
Gonzalo	Ramirez Cleves
Hector	Almeida
Jose Miguel	Camacho Castro

In the human understanding that distils over time, an idea prospers upon which history is anchored alongside the visible part of the lifeworld (Lebenswelt); it concerns the discovery and interpretation of the infinite worlds in which diverse human conditions appear, facing which it is necessary to consolidate that judicial effort to address the convulsive lifeworld. The window that opens space for the participation of Law, in that explicit lived experience, is a moment in which methods, beliefs, ideologies, feelings, concepts, theories, and reasons vanish into a concerning integration.

The purpose is to seek an academic space in which certain horizons of thought are presented, from which a competitive deliberation is possible regarding the possibilities of forming constitutional judicial thought. This is directed towards the reasonable search for topics or theoretical models charged with thinking legally about a genuine, practicable, and reliable lifeworld. Through the construction of reasons in the argumentative structure, the application of Constitutional Law will transition towards forms of life as a permanent dialogue in a plausible encounter with ‘others’, represented in dissimilar ways of being.

Thinking the Law implies a conjunction of multiple conceptual creations that give life to legal practice and, at the same time, generate the credible telos for the existence of Law as a fundamental mark of civilisation. Therefore, rendering a judgment implies mastering concepts, explaining their nature, knowing their limits, determining their methods, and proclaiming their viability for a concrete legal situation. Philosophy entails these conceptual conditions that allow for responsibility in the making of any judicial decision.

An examination of particular cases in Colombian constitutional jurisprudence could reveal how Magistrates, for instance, of the Colombian Constitutional Court, have availed themselves of philosophy in controversial scenarios.