SELA 2025
June 13 – 15
Mexico City
Robert H. Burt Keynote: Catherine MacKinnon
Session I: The State of Play in Mexico
Catalina Perez and Carlos de la Rosa “The legitimacy of Mexico's judiciary
seen from inside and outside”
Alejandro Madrazo “Popular Sovereignty vs. Rule of Law”
Andrea Pozas “The seeds of the 2024 judicial reform in Mexico in
the hyper-reformism of the 1977 political reform”
Commentator: Noah Novogrodsky
Session II: IHR in a Hostile World
Delfina Beguerie “Managing Conflicts between Constitutional and
Human Rights Law”
Julieta Lemaitre and Pablo Kalmanovitz “Criminal Organizations and
Crimes against Humanity in Colombia and Mexico”
Marisa Iglesias Vila “Structural vulnerability as central concept in IHR
Adjudication”
Karina Ansolabehere “A comparative analysis of IHR country
recommendations by 3 monitoring bodies”
Commentator: Maria Paula Saffon
Session III: Threats to Democracy
Caio Mario Pereira “Divisive Democracy and Regulatory Erosion in the
Tropics: The Brazilian Case”
Jaime Couso “Between Denial and Cancel Culture”
Julio César Guanche “Race and politics in Cuba”
Commentator: Adilson Moreira
Session IV: Judge-centered Strategies for Constitutional Defense
Roberto Saba “The Legitimacy of Constitutional Judges”
Sergio Campos and José Ignacio Hernández “Civil rights injunction (US) v.
amparo (Mx)”
Commentator: Mariana Mota Prado
Session V: Participation and Representation
Leticia Vita “Citizen Participation in Argentina's Constituent
Assemblies”
Martín Hevia “The Common Good and Civil Associations”
Lucas Grosman “Democratic Quotas”
Commentator: Ángel Oquendo
Session VI: Legal Education Roundtable
Panelists: Pablo Larrañaga, Antonio Barreto, Ana Paula de
Barcellos, Mónica González Contró
Moderator: Martín Farrell