<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper explores how the Colombian Constitutional Court has used the legal and political philosophy of Ronald Dworkin to show that the use of the concepts of rights as <italic>trump cards,</italic> individual autonomy, and state neutrality, have configured the reception of egalitarian liberalism. This conclusion is reached by means of an analysis of the meaning and use of these concepts in certain judicial decisions and of personal interviews with certain head justices and law clerks of said Court, which also made it possible to frame this question within the larger issue of the relationship of philosophy to the decisions of the judges.</p></abstract>

This paper explores how the Colombian Constitutional Court has used the legal and political philosophy of Ronald Dworkin to show that the use of the concepts of rights as trump cards, individual autonomy, and state neutrality, have configured the reception of egalitarian liberalism. This conclusion is reached by means of an analysis of the meaning and use of these concepts in certain judicial decisions and of personal interviews with certain head justices and law clerks of said Court, which also made it possible to frame this question within the larger issue of the relationship of philosophy to the decisions of the judges.

Hercules in the Colombian Constitutional Court

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics

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This paper explores how the Colombian Constitutional Court has used the legal and political philosophy of Ronald Dworkin to show that the use of the concepts...

Hercules in the Colombian Constitutional Court

Published Online: Oct 23, 2020

Page range: 1 - 23

Received: Oct 21, 2019

Accepted: Jul 06, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjlp-2020-0001

Keywords
Ronald Dworkin, Colombian Constitutional Court, liberalism, rights, egalitarian

© 2020 Iván Garzón Vallejo et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Hercules in the Colombian Constitutional Court

Published Online: Oct 23, 2020

Page range: 1 - 23

Received: Oct 21, 2019

Accepted: Jul 06, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjlp-2020-0001

KeywordsRonald Dworkin, Colombian Constitutional Court, liberalism, rights, egalitarian

© 2020 Iván Garzón Vallejo et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Ronald Dworkin, Colombian Constitutional Court, liberalism, rights, egalitarian