The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law

Webinar

While the global debates on constitutional law have traditionally been dominated by the scholarly agendas of consolidated jurisdictions such as those from the United States, France, the United Kingdom and Germany, the expansion of constitutionalism in many recent democracies and developing countries has opened new possibilities on the field.

In Latin America, for example, beyond typical liberal concerns about the limits of state power, transitions to democracy have encouraged practices of constitution-making and constitutional adjudication in which fighting poverty and exclusion, promoting access to justice, and transforming unequal social structures have a central place.

In this scenario, the essays collected in The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press, 2020) seek to map, reflect on and evaluate this new, pluralized conversation on constitutional law. What do these new constitutional experiences have to add to the global conversation – and, perhaps, redirect it? Is the idea of a “global south” itself useful to understand and compare these different national trajectories and constitutions? In this webinar, the editors of the volume were joined by scholars of constitutional law from different countries for a critical discussion on the main themes and challenges presented by the book.

The webinar was organized by Insper’s faculty of law and sponsored by the Brazil Chapter of the International Society for Public Law (ICON-S).

For the debate, we brought together Ana Micaela Alterio, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), Jane Reis, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Michael Riegner, Postdoctoral researcher of the Faculty of Law at Humboldt University Berlin, Philipp Dann, Chair of Public and Comparative Law at Humboldt University Berlin, and Roberto Gargarella, Associate Professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires and Full Professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. The event was moderated by Diego Werneck Arguelhes, Associate Professor at Insper.

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The webinar will be fully conducted in English and will not feature simultaneous translation Portuguese / English.

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