Evolución de las fuentes del derecho administrativo en Colombia

Abstract

This paper will deal with the "Evolution of the sources of Administrative Law", as a subject of great importance in our internal Colombian legal system, which stands out and encompasses an endless number of notions that allow the articulation of Colombian Law for a better application. However, to introduce the subject, it is necessary to define administrative law as a branch of national public law, responsible for regulating public administration through a set of legal rules and general principles. Now the sources of Law are defined in a broad sense, as those tools and instances to which judges, legislators and other officials turn, that must be supported for the making of a decision or creation of a norm, being necessary to relate the previous concept to the administrative field regarding the public function.

That is why we have and distinguish in various articles and books, classifications that treat and mention formal sources other than material sources. The former refer directly to Law formally as are the Constitution, laws, jurisprudence and the latter, that is to say material sources, doctrine, custom. In this regard there is a wide and sufficient diversity that touches on the subject, and generate all kinds of confusion, because it is evident how different authors do not distinguish one source from another or between these same give opinions that are intertwined and do not generate clarity.