On Friday 7 June 2024 at 10.30 am in the Institute of Law Studies will be held a seminar. ‘Challenges of representative and participatory constitution-making: insights from the recent Chilean processes’.
The seminar will focus on the process of drafting a new constitution of the Republic of Chile in 2021 and 2022. Issues addressed will include, among others, citizen participation, gender parity, the crisis of representative institutions, in particular Congress, and political parities, as well as the problems of deliberation revealed during the legislative process, both within the drafting bodies and in the relationship between the Constitutional Convention and Congress and the President.
The special guest will be Esteban Szmulewicz Ramírez – Universidad Austral of Chile, graduate of the Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona, London School of Economics and Political Science, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile, and currently also a Fellow at the Law School of Leiden University. In addition, he is a member of the Chilean Association of Constitutional Law, the Chilean Association of Administrative Law and a founding member of the Chilean Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S).
Esteban Szmulewicz Ramírez, significantly from the point of view of the topic of the seminar, was actively involved in the drafting of the 2022 Constitution.
The planned seminar is therefore a unique opportunity to meet a constitutional law specialist from the other side of the globe, as well as a participant in the fascinating deliberative process of drafting the Constitution, which, although lost in the referendum, has moved the scientific community worldwide.
The seminar will be held in English, in hybrid mode.
Place:
Instytut Nauk Prawnych Polskiej Akademii Nauk
rom 223, 2nd floor
ul. Nowy Świat 72 (Staszic Palace)
00-330 Warsaw