nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220202-001420-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220201s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220202-001420-0 doi eng 342 23 Iturralde Sánchez, Manuel Author aut Lifetime Imprisonment and the Identity of the Constitution - The Colombian Constitutional Court, Human Dignity, and the Substitution of the Constitution Iturralde Sánchez, Manuel Verfassungsblog 2022-02-01 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier By the end of 2021, the Constitutional Court of Colombia published its opinion on lifetime imprisonment. In its opinion from 2 September 2021, the Court held that life imprisonment is incompatible with two of the fundamental pillars of the Constitution. In this blog post, we contextualize the Court’s reasoning and argue that the Court´s thesis of the “substitution of the Constitution” is innovative and bold, both in constitutional and comparative terms, but also raises complex questions regarding the role of courts and judicial activism vis-à-vis the control of the political branches of government in democratic regimes. CC BY-SA 4.0 Bonilla Maldonado, Daniel Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/lifetime-imprisonment-and-the-identity-of-the-constitution/ raw object