La Constitución de 1991 como solución a la presente crisis

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, Betsy Perafán
2016 | Universidad de los Andes

By reason alone: Catholicism, constitutions and sex in the Americas

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2012

Catholic backlash against the liberalization of abortion and same-sex marriage laws in the Americas has been gathering momentum through the use of constitutional and human rights arguments. While Bishops’ Conferences as well as individual priests and the Vatican itself continue to frame sexual and reproductive rights in the language of God and faith, lay Catholic lawyers have translated theology into constitutional and human rights arguments to halt and reverse liberal abortion and same-sex marriage laws. Their arguments invoke reason instead of faith, based on the claim that the right use of reason in legal arguments leads to the same conclusions as theological reasoning. This article examines the main arguments recently used by lay Catholic lawyers in the United States, Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil and relates them back to the Vatican’s position on human life, religious freedom, and gender equality. This article examines these parallels, their implicit theological basis, as well as their tensions, both rhetorical and substantive, with mainstream constitutionalism.

Modes of Disestablishment in Latin America

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2017

Law and Violence in Latin America

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2019

El Estado siempre llega tarde: La reconstrucción de la vida cotidiana después de la guerra

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2019

Manuel Quintin Lame: Legal thought as minor jurisprudence

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2017

Violencia

Julieta Di Corleto, Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2008 | Siglo del Hombre Editores

Legal Fetishism

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2007

Legal Fetishism: Law and social movements in Colombia

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2008

El amor en tiempos de cólera: Derechos LGBT en Colombia

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2009

Internally displaced Women as Knowledge Producers and Users in Humanitarian Action: The View from Colombia

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
2013

The literature on evidence-based action in humanitarian crises commonly focuses on how inter-and non-governmental organisations can produce better knowledge and how this can be translated into improved programming. Yet, there is little recorded experience of, or concern about, how the beneficiaries of humanitarian relief can produce and use knowledge of their predicament. This paper is based on a case study of how the Liga de Mujeres Desplazadas, an internally displaced women's organisation in northern Colombia, employs proactively research-generated data to advance its own agenda in its interactions with donor bodies and the government. The paper finds that beneficiaries of humanitarian aid can, and do, use participatory research to advance their own ends in the legal and political spaces created around humanitarian crisis. However, their agency is limited by poverty, violence, and local balances of power. The paper concludes that beneficiaries' priorities in the production of data about humanitarian crises warrant further study.

The Moderating Influence of International Courts on Social Movements

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, Rachel Sieder
2017

Feminists and religious conservatives across the globe have increasingly turned to courts in their battles over abortion. Yet while a significant literature analyzes legal mobilization on abortion issues, it tends to focus predominantly on domestic scenarios. In this article, we consider the effects of this contentious engagement of pro-choice and anti-abortion movements in international human rights fora, asking what happens to social movement claims when they reach international human rights courts. We answer the question through a detailed description of a single case, Gretel Artavia Murillo et al. v. Costa Rica, decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 2012 but with ongoing repercussions for abortion rights, given its authoritative interpretation of embryonic right to life. Through our analysis of Artavia Murillo, we show how legal mobilization before international human rights courts moderates social movement claims within the legal arena, as rivals respond to one another and argue within the frame of courts’ norms and language.

Las voces de las victimas

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, Libardo Ariza
2013 | Universidad de los Andes

Diálogo sin debate: La participación en los decretos de la Ley de Víctimas

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2013

Este artículo examina la forma como se dio la participación ciudadana en la reglamentación de la Ley de Víctimas (Ley 1448 de 2011) tanto con la población general de víctimas como con las minorías étnicas. A través del estudio de caso de la socialización del Decreto 4800 y la consulta previa de los decretos-ley 4633 (indígenas) y 4635 (afrocolombianos) todos del 2011, el artículo propone una tipología de los diferentes conceptos de participación ciudadana. Estos son: la participación como gobernanza, la participación como derecho y la participación como herramienta de transformación social.
Con ello se aporta al debate necesario sobre las muchas tensiones y dificultades cotidianas de la participación de poblaciones vulnerables en procesos de consulta y socialización de leyes y políticas públicas.

Beyond Sexual Violence in Transitional Justice: Political Insecurity as a Gendered Harm

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
2014

The growing literature on gender in armed conflict and the debates over post-conflict reparations for women, focus on the prevalence and harms of sexual violence. While this focus has recently been critiqued, there are few articulations of other types of gendered injuries. This article decentres the emphasis on sexual violence by examining the intersection between forced displacement and political insecurity. Based on extensive field research in Colombia, and using as an example a case study of an internally displaced women’s grassroots organization in Cartagena, Colombia, this article examines political insecurity as a specifically gendered harm. It reflects on the concrete circumstances of insecurity, on the relevance of traditional gender roles in the constitution of insecurity, and on the challenges for court-ordered remedies. This widening of the scope of attention also invites complex reflection on the possibility of transformative reparations in post-conflict situations.

Shifting Frames, Vanishing Resources and Dangerous Legal Opportunities: Legal Mobilization among Displaced Women in Colombia.

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
2016

How can we make sense of the use of legal claims and tactics under conditions of internal displacement and armed conflict? This article argues that in violent contexts mobilization frames are unstable and constantly shifting, resources tend to vanish, and political opportunities often imply considerable physical danger. It is grounded on a three‐year, multimethod study that followed internally displaced women's organizations as they demanded government assistance and protection in Colombia. Through detailed examples of specific cases, this article illustrates the constraints of legal mobilization in violent contexts, as well as different social movement strategies of resistance. It, thus, contributes to decentering theories of social movement uses of law that tend to be based on the legal cultures and institutions of industrialized liberal democracies, rather than on those of the Global South, and hence, tend to exclude violence.

After the War: Displaced Women, Ordinary Ethics and Grassroots Reconstruction in Colombia

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2016

This article examines internally displaced women’s narratives of rebuilding their life after displacement, focusing on questions of moral agency and community governance. The data come from a 3-year research project (2010–2013) with internally displaced women in Colombia, during the emergence of a new transitional justice regime. The article finds in internally displaced women’s narratives of the injuries of war, of their own resistance and overcoming, and of their aspirations for the future, concerns that go beyond poverty alleviation and redistribution in peace-building efforts. Internally displaced women’s narratives also engage with questions of ordinary ethics and community governance, describing the loss of moral agency in civil war and its painstaking recovery. This article questions the limitations of transitional justice regimes and peace-building efforts that ignore concerns with the loss of moral agency and community during civil war as well as the role of ordinary ethics in peace building at the grassroots.

The Problem of the Plaza: Religious Freedom, Disestablishment and the Catholic Church in Latin America’s Public Square

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2017

Constitución y democracia en movimiento

Helena Alviar García, Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll
2016 | Universidad de los Andes

El curso de Constitución & Democracia de la Universidad de los Andes tiene como propósito la formación de una ciudadanía responsable y crítica, a partir de la comprensión del marco constitucional y del sistema de derechos contenido en él. Es por lo anterior que los profesores de las facultades de Derecho, de Economía y el departamento de Ciencia Política elaboraron el presente libro. Los veinticuatro capítulos incentivan el desarrollo del pensamiento analítico, crítico y creativo de los estudiantes. Numerosos ejercicios de profundización, reflexión y debate, así como guías de lectura, sugerencias de materiales de clase y glosarios complementan esta obra, para hacerla una gran herramienta de apoyo en el aula.