Chairs
• Sabrina Ragone sabrina.ragone2@unibo.it
• Humberto Sierra Porto humberto.sierra@uexternado.edu.co

SPEAKERS

Franklin Alejandro	Fuentes Santana
Giacomo	Palombino
Hugo	Tortora Aravena
Jairo	Lima
Juan MANUEL	MECINAS
Nicolás	Madriñán Serna
Valentina Del Sol	Salazar Rivera

Comparative studies, across all branches, have for decades been biased in favour of certain parts of the Western world, preferring European and North American legal orders, which are considered more advanced and superior points of reference. This bias is being deconstructed by 21st-century comparativists, who have demonstrated that the Global South, and specifically Latin America, provides extraordinary models and experiments that open new perspectives on traditional topics and settled questions in liberal constitutionalism.

The objective of this workshop, which is of a transversal nature, is precisely to reflect upon the importance of opening comparative studies in constitutional law to Latin American systems. Special reference will be made to forms of government (e.g., how has the adaptation of presidentialism contributed to rethinking the categories of this organisation of power?); fundamental rights (e.g., the experimentation within constitutional texts and national and Inter-American jurisprudence that has elaborated new rights or provided evolutive interpretations of classic ones); the rights of nature; constitutional change and reform (e.g., with reference to failed or successful attempts at change in recent decades); and systems of constitutional justice.

Abstract proposals should respond to these questions, with the option of choosing examples from all the aforementioned topics:

Is it possible to configure a concept of Latin American constitutionalism that stands in contrast to traditional liberal models?

In which areas is it indispensable to take into account the constitutions of Latin America to offer a comparative framework that is effectively comprehensive and relevant?