Chairs
Rene Urueña – rf.uruena21@uniandes.edu.coSué González Hauck – gonzalez@hsu-hh.deIgnacio G. Perotti Pinciroli – ignaciogaston.perotti@universidadeuropea.esDaniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín – daniel.quiroga@graduateinstitute.chIrene Vázquez Serrano – irene.vazquez@um.es

Over the past decade, geopolitical dynamics have undergone a profound transformation. The post–Cold War narrative of liberal internationalism and institutional cooperation appears to be rapidly giving way to renewed military build-ups, the re-emergence of spheres of influence, and intensified strategic rivalries. From Europe to the Pacific, and increasingly across Latin America, global actors such as the United States, China, Russia, the European Union, and NATO are reshaping the rules of engagement, with profound consequences for domestic and regional public law.

In this context of change, we seek to bring together scholars and practitioners to explore whether and how domestic and regional legal frameworks can—or cannot—adapt to the pressures of a fragmented global order, particularly in Latin America and Europe. Through which pathways do evolving geopolitical shifts influence the practice and conceptual foundations of domestic and regional public law?

To initiate this discussion, we invite workshop participants to engage with three guiding questions:

1. How do national and regional courts respond to external geopolitical pressures?
How do they address cases involving international norms, institutions, and obligations affected by geopolitical tensions?

2. How are the domestic and regional production, circulation, and legitimation of legal knowledge and expertise shaped by geopolitical shifts?

3. To what extent do dominant categories of domestic and regional public law—such as sovereignty, universalism, and even the language of rights—remain adequate in an international order marked by power struggles, new forms of imperialism, and democratic backsliding?

Our invitation is therefore not only to assess the capacity of domestic and regional legal systems to respond to challenges to rights arising from cross-border strategies of influence, but also to explore alternative legal imaginaries and renewed forms of agency for international law and human rights, particularly from the perspective of the Global South and other peripheral contexts.