Informe Final : [asesoría en diseño gráfico y desarrollo de planos técnicos de la colección Casa Colombia 2004].

3 hojas : ilustraciones.

Artesanía, diseño y manualidad : encuentro interdisciplinario sobre la producción, comercialización y consumo de productos artesanales en Colombia.

48 hojas.

Convenio Artesanías de Colombia - Gobernación del Departamento de Casanare. Recuperación y fortalecimiento de la actividad artesanal en las comunidades indígenas saliva de Orocue.

15 hojas.

Asesoría para el mejoramiento de procesos productivos y la socialización de los productos exitosos diseñados y asesorados por Artesanías de Colombia.

18 hojas : ilustraciones.

Informe de caracterización y asesoría técnica para realizar el mejoramiento, acondicionamiento y manejo de hornos para cerámica en los municipios de Planeta Rica, Ciénaga de Oro y Momil, departamento de Córdoba, República de Colombia.

29 hojas : ilustraciones.

Listado de canastos de Colombia.

2 hojas.

Exgerentes de Artesanías de Colombia.

Compendio de fotografías que ilustran actividades de promoción social para el desarrollo de la artesanía, suscripción de convenios interinstitucionales, eventos feriales, visitas a municipios artesanales tradicionales, entrega de condecoraciones y reconocimientos a las destrezas de los artesanos, inauguración de ferias artesanales que en colaboración con funcionarios de la entidad fueron llevados a cabo por parte de los exgerentes de Artesanías de Colombia: Federico Echeberría Olarte (1968-1972), Graciela Samper de Bermúdez (1972-1984), María Cristina Palau de Angulo (1985-1990), Cecilia Duque Dique (01990-2005) y Paola Andrea Munñoz Jurado (2005-2009). (Herrera Rubio, Neve Enrique)

Imágenes del Claustro de las Aguas, sede de Artesanías de Colombia.

28 hojas ; ilustraciones, fotografías.

Stand de Artesanías de Colombia en feria internacional de Alemania.

9 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías

Promoción ferial realizada en la Sede Las Aguas de Artesanías de Colombia.

7 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías

Ferias artesanales realizadas en el Parque Nacional de Bogotá, por Artesanías de Colombia.

13 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías

Informe Final de actividades relacionadas en el plan de trabajo del contrato interinstitucional suscrito entre Artesanías de Colombia S. A. y la Alcaldía de Palmira, Valle del Cauca.

40 hojas : ilustraciones fotografías.

Police accountability in Ireland: an analysis of the problems posed by the legal, constitutional and political dimensions and how they might be addressed

The concept of police accountability is not susceptible to a universal or concise definition. In the context of this thesis it is treated as embracing two fundamental components. First, it entails an arrangement whereby an individual, a minority and the whole community have the opportunity to participate meaningfully in the formulation of the principles and policies governing police operations. Second, it presupposes that those who have suffered as victims of unacceptable police behaviour should have an effective remedy. These ingredients, however, cannot operate in a vacuum. They must find an accommodation with the equally vital requirement that the burden of accountability should not be so demanding that the delivery of an effective police service is fatally impaired. While much of the current debate on police accountability in Britain and the USA revolves around the issue of where the balance should be struck in this accommodation, Ireland lacks the very foundation for such a debate as it suffers from a serious deficit in research and writing on police generally. This thesis aims to fill that gap by laying the foundations for an informed debate on police accountability and related aspects of police in Ireland. Broadly speaking the thesis contains three major interrelated components. The first is concerned with the concept of police in Ireland and the legal, constitutional and political context in which it operates. This reveals that although the Garda Siochana is established as a national force the legal prescriptions concerning its role and governance are very vague. Although a similar legislative format in Britain, and elsewhere, have been interpreted as conferring operational autonomy on the police it has not stopped successive Irish governments from exercising close control over the police. The second component analyses the structure and operation of the traditional police accountability mechanisms in Ireland; namely the law and the democratic process. It concludes that some basic aspects of the peculiar legal, constitutional and political structures of policing seriously undermine their capacity to deliver effective police accountability. In the case of the law, for example, the status of, and the broad discretion vested in, each individual member of the force ensure that the traditional legal actions cannot always provide redress where individuals or collective groups feel victimised. In the case of the democratic process the integration of the police into the excessively centralised system of executive government, coupled with the refusal of the Minister for Justice to accept responsibility for operational matters, project a barrier between the police and their accountability to the public. The third component details proposals on how the current structures of police accountability in Ireland can be strengthened without interfering with the fundamentals of the law, the democratic process or the legal and constitutional status of the police. The key elements in these proposals are the establishment of an independent administrative procedure for handling citizen complaints against the police and the establishment of a network of local police-community liaison councils throughout the country coupled with a centralised parliamentary committee on the police. While these proposals are analysed from the perspective of maximising the degree of police accountability to the public they also take into account the need to ensure that the police capacity to deliver an effective police service is not unduly impaired as a result.

The right to humanitarian assistance in natural and human-made disasters: progress and challenges for an emerging international legal framework

Natural and human-made disasters cause on average 120,000 deaths and over US$140 billion in damage to property and infrastructure every year, with national, regional and international actors consistently responding to the humanitarian imperative to alleviate suffering wherever it may be found. Despite various attempts to codify international disaster laws since the 1920s, a right to humanitarian assistance remains contested, reflecting concerns regarding the relative importance of state sovereignty vis-à-vis individual rights under international law. However, the evolving acquis humanitaire of binding and non-binding normative standards for responses to humanitarian crises highlights the increasing focus on rights and responsibilities applicable in disasters; although the International Law Commission has also noted the difficulty of identifying lex lata and lex ferenda regarding the protection of persons in the event of disasters due to the “amorphous state of the law relating to international disaster response.” Therefore, using the conceptual framework of transnational legal process, this thesis analyses the evolving normative frameworks and standards for rights-holders and duty-bearers in disasters. Determining the process whereby rights are created and evolve, and their potential internalisation into domestic law and policy, provides a powerful analytical framework for examining the progress and challenges of developing accountable responses to major disasters.

Legal regulation of the software "patentable subject matter" requirement in the US and in Europe: The need for certainty, predictability and uniformity

This thesis critically investigates the divergent international approaches to the legal regulation of the patentability of computer software inventions, with a view to identifying the reforms necessary for a certain, predictable and uniform inter-jurisdictional system of protection. Through a critical analysis of the traditional and contemporary US and European regulatory frameworks of protection for computer software inventions, this thesis demonstrates the confusion and legal uncertainty resulting from ill-defined patent laws and inconsistent patent practices as to the scope of the “patentable subject matter” requirement, further compounded by substantial flaws in the structural configuration of the decision-making procedures within which the patent systems operate. This damaging combination prevents the operation of an accessible and effective Intellectual Property (IP) legal framework of protection for computer software inventions, capable of securing adequate economic returns for inventors whilst preserving the necessary scope for innovation and competition in the field, to the ultimate benefit of society. In exploring the substantive and structural deficiencies in the European and US regulatory frameworks, this thesis develops to ultimately highlight that the best approach to the reform of the legal regulation of software patentability is two-tiered. It demonstrates that any reform to achieve international legal harmony first requires the legislature to individually clarify (Europe) or restate (US) the long-standing inadequate rules governing the scope of software “patentable subject matter”, together with the reorganisation of the unworkable structural configuration of the decision-making procedures. Informed by the critical analysis of the evolution of the “patentable subject matter” requirement for computer software in the US, this thesis particularly considers the potential of the reforms of the European patent system currently underway, to bring about certainty, predictability and uniformity in the legal treatment of computer software inventions.