DISCIPLINARY LAW IN COLOMBIA. STATE OF THE ART

Disciplinary law in the last fifteen years, although it has renewed its membership as a species of punitive law, has gained autonomy and independence from the criminal law. Common philosophical assumptions put them together, but there are specific features that set them apart, crucial aspects of a dogmatic methodology which allows establishing the institutes that give form and life to the dogmatic structure which is supported in each of the models of liability presented to us. The temporary decant and practice of legal operators have shown some difficulties in the consideration of the status of autonomous and independent science of disciplinary law, however, in the year 2009 and so far in 2010, jurisprudence has consolidated the achievements of such a concep-tualization, as follows, based on the fundamental characteristics of the categories and subcategories of dogmatic Disciplinary law in Colombia. This paper was carried out taking into account time-space limitations. First, it is intended to be descriptive of what has happened in the doctrine and jurisprudence of the Colombian courts, second it is limited mainly to account for what has been estimated on the subject in the past two years. For a better understanding I want to commit to the idea of accounting to national and international readers the "state of the art" in Colombia and suggest trends in each of the topics discussed. To that end I will discuss the broad spectrum of topics that comprise the disciplinary matters, approached from the philosophical perspective of substantive law, procedural law and an administrative control of disciplinary activity.