Gonzalo A. Ramírez-Cleves is a colombian constitutional law scholar graduated from Law
School at Externado de Colombia University, specialist in the Jean Monnet Chair
in European Legal Culture at the Complutense University of Madrid and in
Constitutional Law and Political Science at the Center for Political and
Constitutional Studies in Madrid. Gonzalo is Phd graduated from the Complutense
University of Madrid in Constitutional Law. His Phd thesis was nominated to the
prize of the best theis of the year 2003 by the Compluense de Madrid University
and is titled “Limits of the constitutional reform in Colombia. The concept of
Constitution as the basis of the restriction”, published by Externado de
Colombia University in 2005.
He also published a book titled “The
limits to constitutional reform and guarantees - limits of constituent power:
fundamental rights as a paradigm” (Externado de Colombia University, 2003); “Poverty,
globalization and law: global, international and regional regulatory spheres” (Externado
de Colombia University, 2009) and edited five books: “Law in the context of
globalization” (Externado de Colombia University, 2007), “Echoes of Kelsen:
life, work and controversies (Externado de Colombia, 2012), "The Legal
Blogs and Web 2.0 for the dissemination and teaching of law", 2010),
"Constitutional Law Lessons (Volume I and II), (Externado de Colombia,
2017).
He also published some articles as: “Freedom
of the press by Bentham and Miguel Antonio Caro: divergences and eventual
correspondences, in: Revista Derecho del Estado, ed. Externado de Colombia
University, volume 22, Bogotá, 2009”; “Reforms to the 1991 Constitution and its
constitutional review: Between democracy and demagoguery”, in: Revista Derecho
del Estado, ed. Externado de Colombia University, volume 21, Bogotá, 2008, “Constitutional
limits to the budget law in Spain”, in; Revista Derecho del Estado, 2001, “Approval
and revision of the treaty of the European Union and state Constitutional
Reforms”, in Revista Derecho del Estado, ed. Externado de Colombia University,
2000, “Mandatory mandate and representative mandate. A diverse perspective: The
Colombian case”, in: Revista Derecho del
Estado, 2000, “Kant's Perpetual Peace and Kelsen's Thought on Pacifism, in
Kant's Perpetual Peace and Kelsen's Thought on Pacifism”, 2008, “The
constitutional precedent and the thought of Kant, in V Conferences of
Constitutional and Administrative Law, ed. Externado de Colombia University,
Bogotá, 2005.
In
English:
-“The
Unconstitutionality of Constitutional Amendments in Colombia: The tensión
Between Majoritarian Democracy and Constitutional Democracy” in: Democratizing
Constitutional Law: Perspectives on Legal Theory and the Legitimacy of
Constitutionalism (ed. Thomas Bustante and Bernardo Gonçalves Fernandes), Springer, 2016, pp. 213 - 233
- “The Inter-American System for theProtection of Human Rights, and a Reflection on the Colombian Situation”, in: The European Public Law Series, Volume
XCIV, “Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights of Citizens: The European and
American Conventions on Human Rights”,
(Academic Contributions), Alfa II Dikia II Project 2006 – 2008, London, Esperia Publications Ltd, 2009,
pp. 33 – 49.
