Universidad Cooperativa De Colombia
SPECIALIZATION IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL LAW
Bogotá, Colombia
Certificate
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2027
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: The Specialization in Criminal Procedural Law examines the Accusatory Oral Criminal System amid reforms to the Colombian criminal procedure. It covers current regulations, oral advocacy, due process, evidentiary rules, and links to human rights and international humanitarian law. The program motivates students to analyze new legal forms and resolve procedural challenges through casework, doctrinal study and procedural strategy.
Career Outcomes: Graduates often work as criminal defense attorneys, public prosecutors, judges, legal advisors on criminal policy, human rights lawyers, international humanitarian law consultants, legal researchers, trainers in justice reform, or in academic or policy roles within courts, NGOs or government.
The postgraduate program has as its object of study Criminal Procedure Law and the Accusatory Oral Criminal System, which is why it is always at the forefront of current regulations which is changing in the current Colombian criminal procedure system.
The focus of the object of study aims to motivate students to resolve the problems posed by the new legal forms of Criminal Procedure and Human Rights and Humanitarian International.
