Drafting a Civil Code for Colombia
The Civil Code Project for Colombia was an initiative of the National University of Colombia, which sought to draft an amendment to the current Civil Code that would update it and unify its regime of obligations and contracts with the commercial legislation. The project was led by two professors and intended to count especially on the participation of the entire national legal community. Nonetheless, anyone interested could participate by sending comments, suggestions and criticisms through an online form established for this purpose.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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