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Constitutional Law and Strategic Litigation

Litigation before the high courts in matters of general significance

We take the case whose decision reaches beyond the parties.

We represent citizens, entities, and associations before the Constitutional Court (Corte Constitucional) and the Council of State (Consejo de Estado), in constitutional actions, namely constitutional protection actions (tutela), class actions for collective rights (acciones populares), and unconstitutionality claims, and in the constitutional review of legislation.

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Constitutional actions

We bring and defend the actions that protect rights and collective interests.

  • Constitutional protection action (tutela)
  • Tutela against judicial decisions
  • Petition for selection for review (insistencia) before the Constitutional Court
  • Class action for collective rights (acción popular) and group action (acción de grupo)
  • Compliance action (acción de cumplimiento) and right of petition

Constitutional review

We file and intervene in constitutional review proceedings, where the admission of the charge is decisive before the merits are reached.

  • Claims against statutes and constitutional amendments (actos legislativos)
  • Charges that are clear, certain, specific, and pertinent
  • Interventions by citizens and by entities
  • Monitoring of review proceedings and automatic constitutional review

Strategic litigation

We choose the case and the timing, because the decision obtained reaches beyond the parties.

  • Case selection and theory of the case
  • Supporting intervention (coadyuvancia) and intervention by interested third parties
  • Technical opinions and amicus curiae briefs
  • Monitoring of precedent and lines of case law

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