The Colombian Constitutional Court, Human Dignity, and the Substitution of the Constitution Iturralde Sánchez, Manuel Author aut Bonilla Maldonado, Daniel Author aut Text xx# 2022 Verfassungsblog 2022-02-01 eng

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By the end of 2021, the Constitutional Court of Colombia published its opinion on lifetime imprisonment. In its opinion from 2 September 2021, the Court held that life imprisonment is incompatible with two of the fundamental pillars of the Constitution. In this blog post, we contextualize the Court’s reasoning and argue that the Court´s thesis of the “substitution of the Constitution” is innovative and bold, both in constitutional and comparative terms, but also raises complex questions regarding the role of courts and judicial activism vis-à-vis the control of the political branches of government in democratic regimes. CC BY-SA 4.0 Iturralde Sánchez, Manuel funded by the government 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/lifetime-imprisonment-and-the-identity-of-the-constitution/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20220202-001420-0 220201 10.17176/20220202-001420-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)