John Zuluaga, The Judicial Protection against Interventions in Fundamental Rights. A Comparative Law Analysis, Berlín, Duncker & Humblot, Schriften zum Strafrechtsvergleich (SRV), Volume 19, 2023.

This research deals with judicial protection against interference with fundamental rights during criminal investigations. Based on a comparison of the Colombian case and the German criminal procedure model, it examines the shortcomings of the normative and judicial treatment of the reasonable grounds (motivos fundados) for a criminal investigation in Colombia. The result offers a strict and systematic interpretation of the reasonable grounds as the main basis of the system of judicial protection.

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Reviews:

• CARVE (Judge and public prosecutor in North Rhine-Westphalia) 4(2024), p. 10 (LINK).
• New Criminal Forum, 103, (2024), pp. 253-261 (LINK).

Cristina Montalvo Velásquez/John Zuluaga Taborda/Leandro Eduardo Astrain Bañuelos (coords.). Jorge Segismundo Rotter/José Martín Bonilla Leonardo/Marlus Arns de Oliveira/Susana Martínez Nava (eds.). Current challenges of criminal law and criminal policy in Germany and Latin America: III Workshop of the German International Society of Criminal Sciences (SIGLA-CP), Würzburg 2024, Eckhaus Verlag, 2024. ISBN 978-3-945294-56-7 (LINK).

• “Tatverdacht and Reasons. Notes for a criminal procedural comparison”, in Michael Stöber/Gabriel Barreto (eds.), Contemporary trends in Colombian and German Law 2023, Bogota, Ibañez Publishing House, 2024, ISBN 978-958-502-156-3, pp. 1-1 41-62 (LINK) (INDEX).
• «Confronting the Past Through Criminal Courts. Critical Reflections on the Colombian Case», in: Eric Hilgendorf (Hrsg.). Law in Times of Crisis. Festschrift for Yoram Danziger (SRV, Vol. 20), Berlin, ©Duncker & Humblot GmbH, 2023, pp. 381-393. (LINK) DOI: https://doi.org/10.3790/978-3-428-58941-8
• “Dilemmas of criminal law in the face of digitalization”, in Michael Stöber/Gabriel Barreto (eds.), Contemporary Trends in Colombian and German Law 2022, Bogotá, Editorial Ibaniez, 2023, pp. 222-234. (LINK)
• “From judicial control to interference in fundamental rights”, in Jorge Bheron Rocha (org.), Criminal Procedure in Perspective: Ibero-American Readings, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2023, pp. 107-1 111-128 (LINK).
• "Criminal Political Contradictions of Transitional Justice in Colombia", in Of swords and shields: due process and crime control in times of globalization – Liber amicorum Prof. Dr. J.A.E. Vervaele, The Hague, Eleven, 2023, pp. 767-774. (LINK)
• Together with Manfredo Koessl, “From Colonel Buendía to Iván Márquez. On the difficulties of the peace and reintegration processes in Colombia”, in Fernando Velásquez Velásquez/John Zuluaga Taborda, Constitution and penal system. Commemoration of the 100 years of the Weimar Constitution, Bogotá, Tiran lo Blanch-Sergio Arboleda University-Konrad Adenauer Stiftung: Rule of Law Program for Latin America-SIGLA-CP, 2022, pp. 91-111. (LINK)
• “Notes on the unconstitutional and apolitical dimension of life imprisonment in Colombia”, in Christian Scheechler Corona/Cristina E. Montalvo Velásquez/John Zuluaga Taborda/Lizbeth Xóchitl Padilla Sanabria/Leandro Eduardo Astrain Bañuelos/Luiza Borges Terra (eds.). Constitution and Post-pandemic Criminal Policy, Weimar, Eckhaus Verlag, 2022 (LINK).
• “Against life imprisonment and in favor of human dignity. By way of presentation”, in Fernando Velásquez/John Zuluaga (eds.). Life imprisonment in Colombia. Comparative Political-Criminal Perspectives, Tiranto Blanch-USA-KAS Law, 2022 11-15. (LINK)
• “Digitalization and Human Rights. A preliminary approach due to the crisis caused by covid-19”, in Pablo Galain/Eduardo Saad, Corporate responsibility, Human Rights and the Corporate Criminal Law agenda, Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 2022, pp. 613-630 (LINK).
• “The Challenges of digital justice in Colombia. An approach based on the judicial crisis caused by COVID-19”, in: Susanne Beck, Carsten Kusche, Brian Valerius (Hrsg.), Digitization, automation, AI and law. Celebration of the 10th anniversary of the RobotRecht research center, Baden-Baden (Germany), Nomos, 2020, pp. 589-601. (LINK).

For previous publications see HERE

• "In memory of Claus Roxin", Legal field [Scopejuríico.com], Legis S.a., 19.03.2025 (LINK).
• “The challenge of suspicion”, Legal field [scopiojurídico.com], Legis S.A., 29.11.2024 (LINK).
• Towards a unified model of transitional justice? Ambitjurídico.com, 25.10.2024 (LINK).
• “The importance of scientific cooperation”, Legal field, 22.08.2024 (LINK).
• “Academic management in decline”, Legal field 16.05.2024 (LINK).
• “Legitimate defense and security relativism”, Ámbitojurídico.com 12.03.2024 (LINK)
• “the illusion of academic merit in Colombia”, Ámbitojurídico.com 02.02.2024 (LINK)
• „A Latin American penal science“, in Ámbitojurídico.com 27.07.2023 (LINK)
• “The 'general' part as a parameter for decriminalization”, in Legal field Nr. 609, Bogotá, Legis S.A., 05.22 to 06.04.2023, pp. 14-15 (LINK).
• “The linguistic reception of German penal dogmatics”, in Ámbitojurídico.com 27.02.2023 (LINK).
• “Right-wing extremism or political crime?”, in Ámbitojurídico.com-Global Look Section, 23.01.2023 (LINK).
• "What can be expected from the criminal process within the framework of transitional justice?", in Ámbitojurídico.com, 16.12.2022 (LINK).
• “The University as a communication space”, in Ámbitojurídico.com, 11.10.2022 (LINK).
• Judicial (E)lessons for a “total peace”, in Ámbitojurídico.com, 17.08.2022 (LINK).
• “The drastic nature of the “noble goals” in penal reforms”, in Ámbitojurídico.com, 11.05.2022 (LINK).
• “A de-scientifying system?”, in Ámbitojurídico.com“A de-scientifying system?”, inLINK)
• “For the right to an ecological vital minimum, in Ámbitojurídico.com, 12.01.2022 (LINK).

For previous contributions see HERE

• Presentation: “The criminal process in the face of felt insecurity. Challenges for a criminal procedural dogmatic that limits dangerousness in Colombia”, in II Congress of Professors of Criminal Law and Criminology, Bogotá, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, October 24, 2024 (LINK).
• Presentation: “The ideological dimension of the concept of economic crime”, in the Seminar on Economic Crimes: Relevant Issues for Chilean Criminal Law, Concepción (Chile), Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, 10/17/2024 (LINK).
• Presentation: “Contemporary criminal law: between new and old criminal political grammars”, in Conversatorio Nacional de Justicia y Paz: "Justicia y Paz no es un experimento, es un referente”, Villavicencio, Superior Council of the Judiciary, 04.10.2024 (LINK Min. 9:07 a 57:20.).
• Workshop Current Challenges of Criminal Law and Criminal Policy. Würzburg (Germany), 07/22/26/2024. (LINK).
• “V German Seminar”, Conference: Michael Stöber, “Liability for damages in German law”, Bogotá, Universidad Sergio Arboleda, 02/29/2024 (LINK).
• First Latin American School of Criminal Sciences, Guanajuato (Mexico), University of Guanajuato, 26.- to 06.30.2023 (LINK).
• “IV German Seminar”, Conference: Eric Hilgendorf, “Dilemmas-Problems of Automated Driving”, Bogotá, Universidad Sergio Arboleda, 01.02.2023 (LINK).
• “III German Seminar”, Conference: Jörg Eisele, “Recent development of German penal dogmatics from an international perspective”, Bogotá, Sergio Arboleda University, 10/25/2022 (LINK).
• “II German Seminar”, Conference: Michael Stöber, “The duty of legality of the managers of a company in Germany with special attention to the prevention of corruption”, Bogotá, Universidad Sergio Arboleda, 04.10.2022. (LINK).