Constitutional Review of Colombian Emergency Decrees During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Datos.gov.co hosts a database on the constitutional review of legislative decrees issued by the Colombian government during the Social, Economic, and Ecological Emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The dataset includes columns such as Decisión, Sector, Decreto Legislativo, Sentencia, and Fecha de radicación. It was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between the Sector of a decree and the final Decisión (exequible/inexequible) using classification models.
• Track the timeline of judicial review by analyzing the Fecha de radicación and Sentencia dates across different Expediente Número entries.
• Study the prevalence of specific legal Tema areas and their associated Artículos por Decreto that received conditional rulings (Artículos con condicionamientos o expresiones inexequibles).

Strengths

• Dataset provides structured legal metadata including Decisión, Sentencia, and Expediente Número for traceability.
• Covers a specific and significant policy period (COVID-19 state of emergency) for focused analysis.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co

Collection Method

Likely compiled from judicial records of the Colombian Constitutional Court.

Time Range

Covers the period of the state of emergency declared due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 16:52:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia