Fundamental rights in natural and legal persons. The validation of an instrument, the analysis of conceptions and the training strategy for professionals or students of law

Abstract

If human and fundamental rights are based on human dignity, but to the juridical persons can not be applied this figure, it is not understandable how the Colombian Constitutional Court, as interpreter of our Political Constitution, can be granted such privileges, generating doubts that drive this research, for which a bibliographic review was made on concepts such as a) natural person, b) legal entity, c) human rights, d) fundamental rights, e) human dignity and f) citizenship. Subsequently, the obtained results are described by constructing and validating, through expert criteria, an instrument to later investigate in N = 30 students of last semester of law their conceptions about fundamental rights. The progress of N = 4 lawyers who participated in a training strategy to advance their knowledge on these issues is also presented. It is concluded that students must advance in their conceptions about these aspects, since some conceptual gaps are detected, which are not identified in the lawyers that participated in the training strategy, which improve even more after the intervention.