Chairs:

• Mónica Arango Olaya monica.arangoolaya@eui.eu
• Jason Brickhill jason.brickhill@uct.ac.za
• Gautam Bhatia gautambhatia1988@gmail.com

SPEAKERS

Camilo Eduardo	Chaves Vargas
Elba Bethel	Gutiérrez Castillo
Luis Jaime	SALGAR
Mauricio	Albarracín
Patricio	Ato del Avellanal Carrera
Silvana	Casanova
Viviana	Bohórquez Monsalve

Strategic litigation is a form of legal mobilisation by which people turn to legal proceedings, advocacy, or lobbying within a broader movement to secure long-term change. In past decades, worldwide strategic litigation has flourished to allow the recognition of reproductive rights, such as striking down provisions that criminalise abortion; LGBTQ+ rights, such as the right to same-sex marriage; and providing access to retroviral care for HIV-positive people. Increasingly, the environmental law movement has turned to legal mobilisation to secure environmental protections and accountability at the intersection of business and human rights. However, these forms of legal mobilisation have also brought considerable backlash and raised questions about the sustainability of those judicial victories.

In this workshop, we examine how various litigation environments, resources, and decisions yield distinct litigation outcomes. Key themes include impact, outcomes, strategies, implementation challenges, and the translation of judicial remedies into policies, as well as the strengthening or weakening of constitutional arrangements through legal mobilisation. The workshop will elucidate emerging global trends and insights into the impact of strategic litigation in different constitutional contexts.