Constitucionalización del Código General Disciplinario en Colombia

Abstract

The article focuses on the constitutionalization that brings with it the entry into force of Law 1952 of 2019, through which the General Disciplinary Code is introduced into legal life, becoming a state tool that in its first part recognizes the importance of the implementation of the purposes, principles and values, for the correct performance of functions by public officials and the procedures for when the conduct is outside the legal system, even in the same law the possibility of linking principles and rights from international treaties and conventions through the constitutionality block, allowing more complex cases to be intervened from international law. The general objective of the research: to analyze the relevant changes that occurred with the new disciplinary regime. The implemented methodology is supported by the hermeneutical method and the interpretation technique, to expose the reasons why disciplinary law frames its principles from the Constitution; these types of methods and techniques are recognized as qualitative. The results are the demonstration of the constitutionalization and the slight incidence of international law in Colombian disciplinary law. The constitutional and socio-legal transformations of the disciplinary code enable the efficiency of public servants before their institutional responsibilities. This perspective of constitutionalization and principles in the Disciplinary Code makes this article innovative