Chairs
• Diana Esther Guzmán dguzmanr@dejusticia.org – Andrés Abel Rodriguez Villabona androdriguezv@unal.edu.co – Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes ruprimny@dejusticia.org

SPEAKERS

Cristian David	Ocampo Macias
David	Llinás-Alfaro
Diana	Colorado Acevedo
Felipe	Zambrano Gómez
Jean-Paul	Tealdi Correa
Juan Sebastián	Villamil Rodríguez
Laura Isabel	Villamizar Pacheco
Leonardo	Sabogal Murcia
Miguel Angel	Erroz Gaudiano
Oscar Andrés	López

Decades ago, a significant interdisciplinary reflection took place regarding the optimal constitutional designs for achieving better democracies. This led to debates concerning parliamentarianism versus presidentialism, electoral systems, territorial organisation, and superior forms of constitutional justice, inter alia. However, this reflection on institutional designs for democracy tended to be abandoned due to a certain disdain for so-called ‘constitutional engineering’. Nevertheless, we believe that in the face of the current democratic decline, such reflection is indispensable.

The workshop will therefore discuss whether specific constitutional designs exist that are better suited than others to deepen democracy, render it more sustainable, and confront democratic decline. The objective is to receive papers addressing debates on the schemes that best defend and deepen democracy, whether regarding the form of government, territorial organisation, electoral systems, judicial organisation, the protection of rights, etc.