SELA News
INSECURITY, DEMOCRACY, AND LAW
Thursday, June 10
Keynote address by Thomas Pogge 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
