Judicial training: all to be constructed

Abstract

Two failures are stated by the author on the training plan presented by the Administrative Court of the Upper Council of the Judiciary of Colombia at the second meeting of that institution, held in Medellin November 21st to 24th of2001, based in the need of attending specially two aspects, namely: In first place, the judge's political education as a necessary tool to understand the nature of the Public Power of Judiciary, as well as the new chores that the model of state (Social of Law) that had been adopted by the Political Constitution of colombia in its 1 st article assigns in its task of administrator of justice, as well as the need of knowing and understanding the society in whichit develops as a fundamental requirement to give more importance and pertinence to the noble task that it carries out and finally as a fundamental element of the consolidation of the judicial independence, affected in different ways, from inside and outside of the state. In the second place, attention is called over the necessity of counting on the Colombian academy to improve the judicial training, not only on the dogmatic but also in the political aspects, in a way that overcome certain "endogamy" present when is the judicial functionaries themselves who carry out the training for other members of the judiciary.