Abstract

CAJAS SARRIA, Mario Alberto. Local uses of Tratados de Legislación Civil y Penal, by Jeremy Bentham, at the beginning of the republic. Rev. Derecho [online]. 2010, n.34, pp.21-41. ISSN 0121-8697.

This article intends an approach to local uses of Tratados de Legislación Civil y Penal by Jeremy Bentham, between 1820 and 1835. It argues that his work may have failed to influence the law-making in the early years of Republican Age on a local context. Legislation inspired by Bentham's approaches were limited to the enactment of "Ley 18 de 1826" which adopted the "new curriculum" and ordered the teaching of the "Tratados de Legislación" in Jurisprudence curriculum, and "Ley de 1835" that reintroduced those studies after being banned by order of Simon Bolivar. It is suggested that the ideal of a universal legal reform as proposed by Bentham did not occur in the first years of republican life and his work, perhaps, was a local unpredictable application on 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 new generations of lawyers who, it was believed, would frame the legal changes that were needed to rationalize the State: as it was intended by some of the Founding Fathers of the Republic.

Keywords : Bentham in Colombia; legal transplant; local uses of Tratados de Legislación.

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