Economic and societal impact
- Dr Julián López-Murcia’s work has been cited by the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation and the Pan American Health Organization, as well as by some Colombian authorities such as the Constitutional Court, Defensoría del Pueblo (Ombudsman), Contraloría General de la República (National Fiscal Control Office) and Superintendencia de Servicios Públicos Domiciliarios (Superintendency of Public Utilities, SSPD).
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Report A/HRC/36/45, submitted by the Special Rapporteur to the Human Rights Council in September 2017, focuses on the role regulatory frameworks play in the implementation of the human rights to water and sanitation at national level. Full text
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2030 Agenda for Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Look from the Human Rights Perspective
- “This document was inspired by the need to promote comprehensive actions in the management of water and sanitation services with a human rights focus within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) related to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean; in addition, it ratifies the results reported in a PAHO study (2016) on the profound inequalities between urban and rural areas in access to water and sewage services, and the correlation with characteristics such as gender, age, income, education, among others. This report assumed this challenge using a methodology based on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation (HRWS) analytical framework. This report seeks to provide the most up-to-date overview of the SDG targets 6.1 and 6.2 situation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Besides outlining the general situation of countries, it presents some elements regarding human rights and the targets 6.1 and 6.2 that have been neglected in the initial monitoring of the 2030 Agenda, above all, the dimensions of inequality and affordability.”. Full text.
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Constitutional Court (Colombia)
- Sentencia (ruling) T-223/22, Constitutional Court (Colombia) Full text
- Sentencia (ruling) T-577/19, Constitutional Court (Colombia) Full text
- Sentencia (ruling) T-012/19, Constitutional Court (Colombia) Full text
- Sentencia (ruling) T-118/18, Constitutional Court (Colombia) Full text
- Sentencia (ruling) T-379/14, Constitutional Court (Colombia) Full text
- Sentencia (ruling) T-009/13, Constitutional Court (Colombia) Full text
- Sentencia (ruling) T-495/10, Constitutional Court (Colombia) Full text
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National Planning Department – DNP- (Colombia)
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Office of the Mayor of Bogotá
A study I authored was cited in the decree on the regulatory reform policy of the city of Bogotá.
Link: Decreto 474 de 2022 Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá, D.C.
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Academic impact
Book launch: La Garantía de los Derechos Sociales
“Es una muy importante contribución al tema de los derechos sociales en Colombia” (This [book] is a very important contribution to the study of social rights in Colombia). Rodrigo Uprimny (Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)
Book review Full text
Author: Dr Fernando Castillo Cadena (Justice of the Supreme Court of Colombia)
International conferences
I have presented my research findings at various international conferences:
- Nuevo gobierno en Colombia: ¿se escucharan ahora las voces de las regiones? (New government in Colombia: will the voices of the regions now be heard?), avec Julian Lopez Murcia, Professeur à l’Université de la Sabana, Colombie. Auteur de l’ouvrage “Recentralisation in Colombia” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Observatoire politique de l’Amérique latine et des Caraïbes, Sciences Po (France), 29 September 2022: https://bit.ly/3gfGbps
- Design thinking methodologies in water regulation. 7th International Water Regulators Forum, IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition (WWCE), IWA, Copenhagen (Denmark), 15 September 2022: https://bit.ly/3tH7pZu
- “Recentralisation in Colombia” by Julián D. López-Murcia, LASA 2022 (virtual), 6 May 2022: https://bit.ly/3tEaPfl
- Look Who’s Back: Recentralisation in Colombia, LAC Main Seminar Series: Roundtable on the new book “Recentralisation in Colombia” by Julián D. López Murcia, Latin American Centre of the University of Oxford, Oxford (Reino Unido), 11 de febrero de 2022. Más información: https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/event/lac-main-seminar-series-roundtable-on-the- new-book-look-whos-back-recentralisation-in-colombia
- Cuatro déficits de la gestión de recursos hídricos en Colombia, Gestión Hídrica en Latinoamérica: Realidades y Desafíos, Centro de Derecho y Gestión de Aguas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 8 de septiembre de 2021. Video: https://fb.watch/7UM8y4sWj6/
- Regulation and Development: Regulating Local Governments in Colombia, 1994-2019, Regulation and Development in Latin America: Towards a Regional Research Agenda, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas –CIDE, Mexico DF, 25- 26 November 2019.
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- A Path-Dependent Theory of Recentralisation, 115th American Political Science Association –APSA Annual Meeting, Washington DC (USA), 29 August – 1 September 2019.
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- Recentralisation and its causes: Colombia 1994-2014, 112th American Political Science Association –APSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (USA), 1-4 September 2016.
- The Role of Economic Performance on the Emergence of Recentralisation: Colombia 1994-2014, XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association -LASA, New York (USA), 27-30 May 2016.
- The Causes of Recentralisation in Colombia (2007-2011), 111th American Political Science Association –APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco (USA), 3-6 September 2015.
- The New Colombian System of Royalties: Decentralisation or Recentralisation?, XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association -LASA, San Juan (Puerto Rico), 27-30 May 2015.
- Regulatory Agencies and Courts in the Global South, Latin American Constitutionalism: between Law and Politics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow (UK), 2 July 2014.
- The Emergence of Recentralization in Colombia, XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association -LASA, Chicago (USA), 21-24 May 2014.
- Subnational autonomy and Political Participation in the Current Colombian Peace Talks, The Colombian Peace Talks: A Challenge for Security and Democracy?, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford (UK), 20 November 2013.
- El Bloque de Constitucionalidad en su Dimensión Correcta: Obligatoriedad de las “Interpretaciones Autorizadas” de los Tratados Internacionales de Derechos Humanos (The block of constitutionality in its correct dimension: binding character of the authorised interpretations of the international human rights treaties), VII Seminario Permanente de Derechos Humanos Xabier Gorostiaga, S.J., Universidad del Zulia et al., Maracaibo (Venezuela), 31 May and 1-3 June 2011.
- Propiedad Privada en el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (Private Property in the Inter-American System of Human Rights), Curso Internacional de Jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos”, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México -UNAM, Mexico City (Mexico), 26-27 February 2009.
Some citations and references:
Google scholar
- Valenzuela‐Levi, N. (2020), Waste Political Settlements in Colombia and Chile: Power, Inequality and Informality in Recycling. Development and Change. doi:10.1111/dech.12591
- Eaton, K. (2020), Self-rule vs. Shared Rule: The Design and Evolution of Federal Institutions in Colombia.Full text
- d’Ávila, Luciana Souza, Andrade, Eli Iola Gurgel and Aith, Fernando Mussa Abujamra (2020) A judicialização da saúde no Brasil e na Colômbia: uma discussão à luz do novo constitucionalismo latino-americano11 Estudo financiado pela Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa de Minas Gerais (Fapemig) por meio de concessão de bolsa de doutorado à primeira autora do artigo. . Saúde e Sociedade [online]. v. 29, n. 3 [Accessed 24 October 2020] , e190424. Available from: . ISSN 1984-0470. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-12902020190424.
- Arevalo, Julián and Ortiz, David. (2019). “The reversal of the decentralization process in Colombia: The peace agreement with Farc as an opportunity to re-decentralize the country”. In:
Verfassung Und Recht In Ubersee/ Law And Politics In Africa, Asia And Latin America ISSN: 0506-7286 ed: v.52 fasc.1 p.51 – 66 ,2019, DOI: 10.5771/0506-7286-2019-1-51 - Federación Nacional de Departamentos. (2019). Más Región. Hacia un Nuevo Modelo de Estado. Disponible en: https://www.fnd.org.co/docs/subdirecciones/gobierno-regiones/+region.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3GmosHG8PHjLntI_LYUQRIYwp2XANBtaQEjWF3nb0
- Restrepo, D. y Peña, C. (2018). “Economía política de la descentralización y de la recentralización. (1986 – 2016)”. En Estupiñan Achury, L., Moreno Gonzáez, G. y Montiel Márquez, A. (Coords.). La cuestión territorial a debate: España y Colombia, Universidad Libre, bogotá, pp. 165-196.
- Olmeda, J.C & Armesto, A. (2017). La recentralización y los gobernadores: ¿Por qué no siempre se oponen? Analizando el caso México. Foro Internacional, 51(1), 109 – 148. https://forointernacional.colmex.mx/index.php/fi/article/view/2360/2361
- Polga‐Hecimovich, John ; Trelles, Alejandro. 2016. The Organizational Consequences of Politics: A Research Agenda for the Study of Bureaucratic Politics in Latin America. Latin American Politics and Society, December 2016, Vol.58(4), pp.56-79
- Vargas, L. and Heller, L. 2016. Determinants in implementing a public policy for an essential volume of free water in Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia. Full text
- Parra-Vera, Oscar. 2016. The Protection of Social Rights, in Juan F. Gonzalez-Bertomeu and Roberto Gargarella (editors), The Latin American Casebook: Courts, Constitutions, and Rights (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge).
- Rubiano-Galvis, Sebastián and Esteban-García, Viviana. 2016. Los Corporaciones Autónomas Regionales y la Regulación Ambiental del Territorio a Propósito de la Disputa por el Borde Norte de Bogotá, in Helena Alviar García and Everaldo Lamprea (editors), El Estado Regulador en Colombia (Bogotá: Universidad de Los Andes, 2016).
- Cajas-Sarria, Mario Alberto, La Historia de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Colombia, 1886-1991, Tomo II Del Frente Nacional a la Asamblea Constituyente, 1958-1991 (Bogotá: Universidad de Los Andes y Universidad ICESI, 2015).
- Llano-Arias, V. 2015. Community knowledge sharing and co-production of water services: Two cases of community aqueduct associations in Colombia. Water Alternatives 8(2): 77-98 Full text
- Latorre, Indira. 2014. La política de mejora regulatoria: oportunidades y desafíos para Colombia. Derecho Público.
- Palacios Lleras, A. (2014) La promoción y protección de la libre competencia en la ley 142 de 1994. Precedente. Full text
- Hartmann, Ivar Alberto, A Right to Free Internet? On Internet Access and Social Rights (November 17, 2013). Suffolk University Journal of High Technology Law, Vol. XIII, No. 2, 2013. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2355900
- The International Business Environment (2012)
Nieto-Navia, Rafael, El valor jurídico de las recomendaciones de los Comités de Derechos Humanos y el bloque de constitucionalidad, 18 International Law, Revista Colombiana de Derecho Internacional, 155-190 (2011). Full text
- Solarte, Arturo, El principio de reparación integral del daño en el derecho contemporáneo in Tendencias de la Responsabilidad Civil en el Siglo XXI – ISBN 978-958-731-004-7, Biblioteca Jurídica Diké, 121-155, 2009.
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https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/red/article/view/18412/0
Procesos de descentralización y recentralización gubernamental bajo el contexto global reciente. Las especificidades del caso La- tinoamericano
ALCIDES BAZZA. Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales del Litoral, Consejo Nacional de Investi- gaciones Científicas y Técnicas – Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina | alcidesbazza@gmail.com
VÍCTOR RAMIRO FERNÁNDEZ. Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales del Litoral, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas – Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina | rfernandez@fcjs.unl.edu.ar
CRISTHIAN SEILER. Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales del Litoral, Consejo Nacional de In- vestigaciones Científicas y Técnicas – Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina | cristhianseiler@gmail.com
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0738059322000293
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https://www.revistaforo.com/2022/0604-03
Las agencias reguladoras independientes y sus desafíos de legitimidad democrática: revisión de literatura y agenda para el derecho constitucional en Latinoamérica: Independent regulatory agencies and their challenges of democratic legitimacy: literature review and agenda for Constitutional Law in Latin America
Julián D. López-Murcia 