núm. 16 (2014): revista via iuris 16 (enero - junio)

The role of the Agency for the Legal and Patrimonial Defense of the State has not been fully regulated in Colombia, despite being crucial, because decentralized and national instances have missed this event. Institutional analysis provides elements to articulate the claims of the agency with the organizational capacity of the Colombian State to meet this challenge. The State should assess its purposes and functions according to the claims of the agency. Incidentally, institutional analysis opens in the State structure the opportunity to consolidate the parameters of the agency, to finally print on the accountability framework of the State such leeway. The State must include legal defense, but without neglecting their commitments.