Chairs
• Federico Suárez Ricaurte (Chair & Speaker) federico.suarez@uexternado.edu.co
• David Schneiderman (Chair & Speaker) david.schneiderman@utoronto.ca

SPEAKERS

Daniel R.	Quiroga Villamarín
Daniela	Amaya
David	Bodingbauer
EDUARDO	MOURA
Fernando	Braceiro
Gyory	Csaba
Luís A. M.	Meneses Do Vale

This workshop will analyse the interface between Constitutional Law and Political Economy.

Since the 1980s and 1990s, free-market economic doctrine has become prevalent and widely adopted in both developed and developing economies, at the global and domestic levels, under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Privatisation, liberalisation, financialisation, the free flow of capital, and the promotion of foreign capital have been key public policy aspects that have informed state constitutional and legal reforms in recent decades.

The workshop will reflect on the effectiveness of such political economy guidelines with regard to constitutional law in promoting core constitutional objectives, such as human rights, environmental protection, economic sovereignty, the rights of indigenous, Black, and ethnic populations, and the principles of equality and non-discrimination.

The diverse and interdisciplinary topics for paper submissions include intellectual property law, competition law, investment law, the digital economy, trade law, taxation law, sovereign debt law, currency law, regional integration law, and natural resources law. The workshop is also open to research in other areas that have prompted current transformations in traditional understandings of constitutional law, the separation of powers, the public/private divide, constitutional supremacy, and the regular functioning of the public branches of the State.