Granados Aristizábal, Juan Ignacio2012-08-302012-08-302012-08-302256-3911http://hdl.handle.net/10567/703On April 12th 2012 the new Colombian Consumer Statute entered into force (Law 1480, 2011). Now, and during the debates on the subject held in the National Congress, comments related to opportunity, regulation and considerations on its conditions to be a tool to advance or retard the protection of consumers and the consumption´s legal relationships, were made. This paper gets away from those discussions to focus on a dogmatic analysis of a specific subject: the contract with consumers which -it is true- is not the only origin of the consumption relationship, but it can be said that it is its main source. For the analysis, a “scrutiny” to the existing doctrinal, legal and jurisprudential reflections about contracts was performed, not only in the Colombian context but internationally, aiming to determine its nature and its particularities and, concerning the latter point, analyze which particularities generate contractual asymmetries. Finally, there is a reflection -from the European law- of contracts, aiming to determine what the current discussion is, concerning the asymmetric treatment coming from other relationships that fit within this framework.esCorporación Universitaria LasallistaFacultad de Ciencias Sociales y EducaciónContratos asimétricosContratos (derecho civil)ConsumidorContratos de adhesiónEstatuto del consumidorLey 1480 de 2011 - Estatuto del consumidor colombianoArticle