Iustitia Socialis (Feb 2020)

Due process as a fundamental right in disciplinary disciplinary processes of university students

  • Ruth Elizabeth Sánchez-Vintimilla,
  • Cecilia Ivonne Narváez-Zurita,
  • Cornelio Agustín Borja-Pozo,
  • Juan Carlos Erazo-Álvarez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.35381/racji.v5i1.604
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 101 – 120

Abstract

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Due process is a legal right, established in the Political Constitution of several States. The right to education and the principle of university autonomy complement each other, to start disciplinary procedures to university students when the case warrants, within these processes there are distinctive features because their rules are not placed in laws, but in regulations enshrined by universities, in the exercise of the principle of university autonomy, there is also the academic part of higher education and finally the student-university relationship that is limited to the right to education understood in its double right dimension - must. This article is focused on making a review on what are the elements that must contain the sanctioning processes issued by the Universities to guarantee due process in all its stages.

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