SELA 2024
June 7-9, 2024
Program
The Possibilities of Environmental Justice
Florencia Saulino – “Environmental Rights, Collective or Individual?”
Salvador Millaleo – “Fair Energy Transition and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America”
Pablo Rueda-Saiz & Alexandra Huneeus – “Territory-as-Victim in Post-Conflict Colombia”
Commentator: Carol Rose
Today’s Threats to Political Freedom
Sebastián Guidi & Gilad Abiri – “The Platform Federation”
Catalina Pérez Correa – “Is Democracy Possible in a Militarized State?”
Leonardo Filippini – “University Autonomy, the Constitution, and Democracy”
Adriana Cruz and Tiago Santos – “Racial Citizenship in Brazil and the US”
Commentator: George Priest
Strategies for Representing the Most Vulnerable
Mauricio del Toro – “Vulnerability and Political Representation in Mexico”
Adilson Moreira – “Thinking as a Black Jurist”
Ana Micaela Alterio – “Translating Political Subjects into Legal Categories”
Madeleine Plasencia – “‘Color-Blind’ Constitutional Interpretation”
Commentator: Roberto Saba
The Saga of Constitution Making in Chile
Rodrigo Correa – “The Paradoxical Chilean Constitutional Moment”
Javier Couso – “How Neutral Should a Constitution Be? An Approach from Chile’s Experience”
Veronica Undurraga – “The Role of Expertise: Reflections on the Second Round”
Roberto Gargarella – “The Theory of Constitutional Assemblies: Some Lessons from Latin America”
Commentator: Paula Ahumada
Paths to Transition in the Caribbean
Michel Fernandez and Julio Antonio Fernandez – “Cuba”
Irwin Stotzky – “Haiti”
Efrén Rivera – “Puerto Rico”
Commentator: Tracy Robinson
The Authority of the Inter-American Human Rights Convention
Daniela Urosa – “Time to Revisit the Status of the United States in the Inter-American System”
Nahuel Maisley – “Two Axes for Conceptualizing the Tension between the Inter-American System and Constitutional Democracies”
Elvira Mendez Chang – “International Obligations v. Constitutional Norms”
Commentator: Renata Bregaglio