A model actancial for the study of constitutional jurisprudence in Colombia: a view from four fundamental rights of the population deprived of liberty

Abstract

Constitutional jurisprudence in Colombia is analyzed using techniques traditional of jurisprudential analysis which are based on the study of judicial precedent for three purposes in particular: the application of the law in specific cases, the interpretation of the law, and to fill normative gaps. On the other side, is uncommon the study of jurisprudence from other qualitative data analysis techniques. It is in this sense that the research advances presented in this paper try to show how to study constitutional jurisprudence from a semiotic approach using the analytical tool of actantial models.

Specifically, it seeks to apply the actantial model of A.J. Greimas on constitutional jurisprudence of four fundamental rights of people deprived of their liberty in Colombia: right to family unity, religious freedom, sexual freedom-intimate visit, and right to prison work. To finally obtain an actantial structure that accounts for the narratological elements present in the judicial rulings when they are studied from semiotics as a narrative story.