El principio de proporcionalidad en el derecho administrativo colombiano.

The principle of proportionality has become in Colombia, especially since the constitutional transition of 1991, with the inexorable process of constitutionalization of both the order and the legal reasoning that the new constitutional framework brought with it, a frequent and valuable tool of construction and justification of their decisions, increasingly focused on the imperative need to resolve collisions between principles, both for the public Administration and for the contentious-administrative jurisdiction.

Thus, this book explains the reason for the rise of the principle of proportionality in legal reasoning, its content or structure and its strengths and limits; Likewise, it seeks to give a systematic look at the various areas of public administration activity in which this technique for preparing and justifying decisions has become commonly used, as well as the use that the jurisdiction has made of it. of contentious-administrative matters, with the potential it offers but also with the risks that its excessive use can entail.