Local uses of Tratados de Legislación Civil y Penal, by Jeremy Bentham, at the beginning of the republic

This article intends an approach to local uses of Tratados de LegislaciónCivil y Penal by Jeremy Bentham, between 1820 and 1835. It argues that hiswork may have failed to influence the law-making in the early years of Republican Age on a local context. Legislation inspired by Bentham’s approacheswere limited to the enactment of “Ley 18 de 1826” which adopted the “newcurriculum” and ordered the teaching of the “Tratados de Legislación” in Jurisprudence curriculum, and “Ley de 1835” that reintroduced those studiesafter being banned by order of Simon Bolivar. It is suggested that the ideal of auniversal legal reform as proposed by Bentham did not occur in the first yearsof republican life and his work, perhaps, was a local unpredictable applicationon legal education. Therefore, it may be stated that the use of Tratados de Legislación Civil y Penal may be aimed at “Educational Reform” to train newgenerations of lawyers who, it was believed, would frame the legal changes thatwere needed to rationalize the State: as it was intended by some of the Founding Fathers of the Republic.

• Autores: Mario Alberto Cajas Sarria; Universidad Icesi
• Fecha de publicación: 2011
• Institución: Universidad del Norte
• Repositorio: Repositorio Uninorte
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:manglar.uninorte.edu.co:10584/3439
• Acceso en línea: http://rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co/index.php/derecho/article/view/951; http://hdl.handle.net/10584/3439
• License: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2