SELA News

INSECURITY, DEMOCRACY, AND LAW

Thursday, June 10

Keynote address followed by opening dinner

Friday, June 11

Panel 1 – The Limits of Criminal Law

Diego Arguelhes and Mariana Pargendler: Collateral Costs of Violence: The Role of Security Arguments in Unexpected Areas of Brazilian Law

Roberto Gargarella: Criminal Punishment in Cases of Grave Social Injustice

Juan G. Bertomeu: The Dilemma of the Progressive Lawyer under a Democratic but Reactionary Regime

Mateo Taussig: Mob Justice, Pirate Trials and the ICC: Reflections on Insecurity in Kenya

Daniel Markovits – Commentator

Panel 2 – Equality and Punishment

Gabriel Bouzat: Inequality, Crime, and Security in Argentina: Why Socioeconomic Factors Cannot Excuse Offenses

Lourdes Peroni: Undemocratic Construction of Insecurity, Undemocratic Responses? The Case of Paraguay and the Need for Inclusion in the Security Debate

Ezequiel Nino: Inequality as a Root Cause of Criminality

Noah Novogrodsky – Commentator

Saturday, June 12

Panel 3 – Imprisonment

Ana Paula de Barcellos: Urban Violence, Prison Conditions and Human Dignity

Leonardo Fillippini: Responses to Insecurity: How Prison Sentences Depart in Practice from their Theoretical Justification

Owen Fiss: Imprisonment without Trial

Marco Abarca – Commentator

 Panel 4 – Institutional Structures

Mariana Mota Prado: Privatization of Security and Military Services in Latin America

Raúl Mejía: The Use of the Military as Police in Mexico

Pedro Salazar: Redefining Security and Reexamining Policy to Identify the Causes of Insecurity in Mexico

Rodrigo Correa – Commentator

Democracy Roundtable

Sunday, June 13

Panel 5 – Security and the Nation-State

William Vázquez Irizarry: The Possibility of a General Theory of Emergency

Pablo Larrañaga: A “Welfarist” Approach to Security Policy

Paul Kahn: Criminals and Enemies

Antonio Barreto – Commentator