Legal Globalization Facing Free Trade and Rural Development in Colombia

Abstract

Legal globalization is a phenomenon that responds to the plurality of events that occur in the cultural, economic and social spheres of globalization. In this, it is possible to identify multiple aspects such as the universal protection of human rights, the unification of the sources of law and legal theory and new forms of corporate economic negotiation. In this article, free trade agreements are analyzed as manifestation of this globalization, not only because of its economic aspects, but also because of the non-economic costs involved in the implementation of state policies aimed at the legal protection of human rights. Furthermore, in some cases those treaties do not consider specific social aspects from the countries involved in the agreement. Particularly in the Colombian case, it is worth to analyze the existent tensions between fta signed with the United States and the political and legal measures implemented against rural development in the rice sector.