Fixing the Ship at Sea: Threats to Democracy and Efforts to Rebuild
Santiago de Chile, June 9-12, 2022
Session 1: Using the Judiciary to Resist Authoritarianism
Leonardo Filippini: “Constitutional Interpretation: Rupture and Continuity in the Face of Authoritarian Legacy”
Diego Arguelhes: “Judicial Populism in Brazil”
Elizabeth Iglesias: “Militant Democracy for the Multitude: Universal Jurisdiction, International Criminal Law and the Conditions of Possibility for the Defense of Human Rights
Commentator: Eleonora Lozano
Session 2: Strategies for Creating and Maintaining Authoritarianism
Conrado Hubner Mendes: “Bolsonaro’s Strategy for Undermining the Constitution without Passing Legislation"
Daniela Urosa: “The Role of Constitutional Courts in Illiberal Latin American Democracies”
José Ignacio Hernández: “Constitutional Authoritarian-Populism and Presidential Reelection in El Salvador”
Commentator: Javier Couso
Session 3: Property, Democracy, and Inequality
Guillermo Arribas: “How Has State Action and Land Titling Policy Affected Customary Propoerty in Peruvian Housing”
Nahuel Maisley: “Law and Democracy in the Globalization of Infrastructure as an Asset Class”
Commentator: Claire Priest
Session 4: International Courts, Transitional Justice, and Democracy (part 1)
José Luis Sardon: “The Flawed Structure of the IACtHR”
Jorge Contesse: “Judicial Interactions and Human Rights Contestations in Latin America”
Commentator: Rodrigo Correa
Session 5: International Courts, Transitional Justice, and Democracy (part 2)
Tracy Robinson: “The Fledgling Caribbean Court and a Divided Guyana”
Alberto Puppo: “Transitional Justice, Redemption, and Humanity”
Commentator: Leticia Vita
Session 6: Inventing the “Other” and its Consequences for Democracy
Thiago Amparo: “Police Necropolitics as Crisis of Democracy in Brazil”
Carlos Portugal Gouvêa: “Patriarchy and Racism in Brazilian Corporate Governance: Implications for Equality and Democracy”
Madeleine Plasencia: “Actor Networks in the Borderlands – The Apposition of Reproductive Rights along the Mexican-American Border”
Commentator: Eleanor Brown
Session 7: The Legitimacy of Populism (part 1)
Fernando Atria: “The Form of Law and the Concept of the Political”
Roberto Gargarella: “‘Conversation Among Equals’ as a Model to Address the Crisis of Constitutional Democracy”
Commentator: Gabriel Bouzat
Session 8: The Legitimacy of Populism (part 2)
Myrta Morales Cruz: “The 2019 Puerto Rican Protests: Mobilization in the ‘Age of Neoliberalism’”
Julio César Guanche “Cuba: Political Conflict, Social Change, Rights, and Citizenship” and Carlos Alzugaray
