SELA 2026
June 12 – 14, 2026
Panama City
Session 1: Democracy and Racism
Wallace Corbo: Black Constitutionalism in Brazil
Esteban Restrepo: The Racial Order of Black Republicanism
Adilson Moreira: Racial Justice: A Theory
Commentator: Agustina Ramón Michel
Session 2: When National Judges Face Transnational Questions
Daniela Salazar: Rethinking International Humanitarian Law or Imagining a
New One?
Natalia Angel-Cabo: Local Judges & Global Dilemmas: Reflections on
Recent Decisions of the Colombian Constitutional Court
Sebastián Guidi & Nahuel Maisley: Human Rights for our Age of
Interdependence
Commentator: Laura Betancur
Session 3: Disciplining the Diffusion of Legal Norms
Pablo Rueda-Saiz: From Geneva to the Grassroots: Normative Divergence &
Implementation of ILO 169 in Latin America
Alvin Padilla: Resisting Federal Rights
Maria-Paula Bucci: The Construction of Structuring Systems for Public
Policies in Brazil
Commentator: Lisa Iglesias
Session 4: Worthy Ends, Dubious Means
Laura Porras: Authoritarian Populism and the Poor
Francisca Pou: Mexican Exceptionalism: Paritarian and Multicultural
Autocracy?
Roberto Gargarella: The Noble Dream of Constitutionalism
Commentator: Carolina Olarte
Session 5: Democracy and Disagreement
Marcelo Alegre: A Democratic Theory of Law
Eliezer Silva: Legal Interpretation and the Conservative and Progressive
Ambivalence of Law
Julio Antonio and Michel Fernández: Draft Constitution for a Democratic
Cuba
Commentator: Alberto Puppo
Session 6: Law and Innovation
Madeleine Plasencia: Human Values Beyond All Price: Actor-Networks in
the Law of Warnings
Eduardo Bertoni: Human Rights & Technology: The Case for Freedom of
Expression
Esteban Pereira: The Constitutionalization of Private Law