Articles in academic journals and book contributions

  • Together with Pablo Galain Palermo, "the criminal process in the face PUCP Law Magazine 95 (2025). (In press).
  • Christian Scheechler & John Zuluaga, “The definition of organized criminal group and its scope against transnational organized crime”, in Federico Freydell Mesa/Sofía Linares Botero/Luisa Villarraga Zschommler/Mariana Molina Flórez (coords.), The phenomenon of transnational organized crime and its impact on public and private corruption in Latin America Part II. Public and private corruption associated with transnational organized crime, Flight. 28, Valencia, Tirant the white, 2025, pp. 403-4 (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).
  • “The challenges of digital justice in Colombia. An approach from the crisis caused by COVID-19”, in Gonzalo Levi Obregón Salinas (Org.). The Multidisciplinary Before and After Covid-19. Mexico City: Thomson Reuters, 2020, p. 253-268. ISBN 978-607-474-571-9 (PDF). Corrected and updated version published in LEX Journal of Criminology & Victimology nº 2 (May-Aug 2021), pp. 97-114.
  • “De la pandemia punitiva. A propósito de las reacciones para enfrentar el COVID-19”, in: Revista online Juris Themis, Argentina, Northesis Editions, 06.17.2020 (LINK). Also in: Criminal Thought Magazine 368, Buenos Aires, Asociación Pensamiento Penal, 21/06/2020 to 30/06/2020. ISSN: 1853- 4554. (LINK).
  • “De lo ´disponible´ ante la JEP. Apuntes sobre la terminación anticipada del proceso”, in: Fernando Velásquez/John Zuluaga/Juan David Jaramillo (eds.), Special jurisdiction for peace. Challenges and opportunities, Bogotá, Tirant lo Blanch, 2020, pp. 193-211. (LINK)
  • “La Constitución de Weimar: rupturas y desafíos”, in: Manfredo Koessl/John Zuluaga (eds.), The Weimar Constitution in the challenges of the 21st century. A look from Latin America, Weimar, Eckhaus Verlag, 2019, pp. 200-202. (PDF)
  • Together with Juliette Vargas, “Conditionality regime and access to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace”, Policy Brief 2-2019, Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ), Bogotá, May 2019. (PDF)
  • “Concepción y evolución de la justicia penal para la terminación del conflicto armado en Colombia”, in: Kai Ambos/Francisco Cortés Rodas/John Zuluaga (coords.),Transitional justice and international criminal law, Bogotá, Century of Man Eds., 2018, pp. 201-236. ISBN 978-958-665-504-0. (PDF)
  • “Hacia una tercera generación de justicia transicional. De la Jurisdicción especial para la solución del conflicto armado en Colombia”, in: In Letter: Criminal Law, Año I I, num. 3 (2016), Argentina, pp. 7-12. ISSN 2469-0864. (LINK)
  • “De la jurisdicción especial para la paz”, in: Debate Magazine N. 73 (Jan-Apr 2016), Medellín, Universidad de Antioquia, pp. 65-69. ISSN 1657-429.
  • Together with Jörn Halling, “El fin del proceso penal en contextos de justicia transicional”, in: Andrés Duque (Comp.), Prospects and challenges of the criminal process, Medellin, UPB, 2015, pp. 203-234. ISBN 9789587642841. (PDF)
  • “Justicia de Transición y Criminalidad Política. Implicaciones desde el punto de vista del modelo de selección y priorización procesal penal”, in: Kai Ambos/Christian Steiner (Coords.), Transitional Justice and Constitution II. Analysis of the sentence C-577 of 2014 of the Constitutional Court, Bogotá, CEDPAL-KAS-Temis, 2015, pp. 47-83 ISBN 978-958-35-1071-7. (PDF)
  • Together with Kai Ambos, „Kolumbiens Krieg Verstehen“, in: Development and Cooperation (D + C) 2015/07, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurter Societäts-Medien, pp. 34-35. (PDF); in english “Understanding ­Colombia’s war”, in: Development and Cooperation (D+C) 2015/7, pp. 34-35 (PDF)
  • “De los ´motivos fundados´ para la afectación de derechos fundamentales en el proceso penal colombiano”, in: New Penalty Foruml 83 (2015), Medellín, EAFIT, pp. 167-210. ISSN 0120-8179; also in: Criminal Gazette and Criminal Procedure 68 (Feb-2015), Peru, Gaceta Jurídica, pp. 309-342. ISSN 2075-6305. (PDF)
  • “Alcance del Artículo 1 inciso 4 del Acto Legislativo 01 de 2012. De la consolidación de la paz y la selección y priorización en la investigación penal”, in: Kai Ambos (Coord.), Transitional Justice and Constitution. Analysis of ruling C-579 of 2013 of the Constitutional Court, Bogotá, Temis-CEDPAL-Konrad Adenauer, 2014, pp. 155-196. ISBN 978-958-35-1007-6. (PDF)
  • Junto a Kai Ambos, “Justicia de transición y Constitución. A manera de introducción”, in: Kai Ambos (Coord.), Transitional Justice and Constitution. Analysis of ruling C-579 of 2013 of the Constitutional Court, Bogotá, Temis-CEDPAL-Konrad Adenauer, 2014, pp. 1-19. ISBN 978-958-35-1007-6. (PDF)
  • Together with Kai Ambos, “Justicia de Transición y Constitución. Análisis de la sentencia C-579 de 2013 sobre el marco jurídico para la paz”, in: Journal of International Criminal Law Doctrine 4/2014, Germany, pp. 165-176. ISSN 1863-6470 (PDF)
  • “Winfried Hassemer: um discrepante em favor das liberdades (17.02.1940 – 09.01.2014)”, in: IBCCRIM Newsletter 257 April/2014, p. 3-4. Tradução e atualização do espanhol por Raquel Lima Scalcon (UFRGS). ISSN 1676-3661. (PDF)
  • “Recensión: Luis Gonzaga Vélez Osorio, Otra Cara del sistema acusatorio colombiano: menosprecio de la libertad personal y autoritarismo penal, Medellín, Universidad de Antioquia – Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, 2012, 210 p.”, in: Notebooks on Criminal Law 9, Bogotá, Sergio Arboleda University, 2013, pp. 211-225. ISSN 2027-1743. (PDF)
  • “Reflexiones sobre la protección judicial frente a medidas restrictivas de derechos fundamentales durante la investigación penal en Colombia”, in: Semester Newsletter GLIPGö Nr. 5, Göttingen, Jan-Jun. 2013, pp. 23-35 ISSN 2193-9675 (PDF).
  • Together with Kai Ambos, “¿Procesos penales contra muertos? Sobre el sentido del juicio penal y la racionalidad de la opinión jurídica”, in: Journal of Criminal Procedural Law 2012-1, Buenos Aires, Rubinzal-Culzoni Editores, 2012, pp. 617-620. ISBN 978-987-30-0325-7.
    • In Portuguese: Processos penais contra mortos? “Sobre o sentido do Processo Penal e a racionalidade da “opinião jurídica””, in: IBCCRIM Newsletter 241 (Dec. 2012), Brazil, IBCCRIM, (Translation of the original by Eneas Romero) pp. 4-6. ISSN 1676-3661. (PDF)
  • “Acerca del procedimiento de la Ley 975 de 2005 o de ´justicia y paz´”, in: Ricardo Molina López (Coord.), Lessons in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminal Policyl, Medellín, Dike - Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Book tribute to the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana on its 75th anniversary), 2012, pp. 571-634. ISBN 9789587310726. (PDF)
  • “Escuela de Verano en Ciencias Criminales y Dogmática Penal alemana. Gottingen (Alemania) 5 – 16 September 2011”, in:
    • Criminal Gazette 28 (Oct – 2011), Lima, pp. 391-396 (PDF)
    • Judicial weekly abc, Paraguay, 31.10.2011, pp. 12-13 (LINK)
    • Digital Magazine of the Master in Criminal Sciences of the University of Costa Rica. No. 3, 2011, pp. 459-467 (PDF)
    • Abc digital, Argentina, 31.10.2011 (LINK)
    • Penal Magazine N. 29, January 2012, Tirant lo Blanch, pp. 289-293;
    • in Portuguése: “Escola de Verão em ciências criminais e dogmática penal alemã”, in: Liberty Magazines Nr. 9 (Jane. – April 2012), pp. 113 - 119 (Translation of Eneas Romero de Vasconcelos, (PDF).
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