Call for Papers: International Law and Constitution-Making

The Rutgers Center for Transnational Law in partnership with the Diego Portales Public Law Program have issued a call for papers for a symposium on "International Law and Constitution-Making." Here’s the call:

Call for Papers: Symposium on “International Law and Constitution-Making”

The Rutgers Center for Transnational Law (United States) in partnership with the Diego Portales Public Law Program (Chile) have issued a call for papers for a symposium on International Law and Constitution-Making. The symposium is sponsored by the American Society of International Law—Latin America Interest Group and The Chilean Chapter of the International Society of Public Law.

Date & location: Wednesday, May 18, 2022, Rutgers Law School (Camden campus)

Can international law affect constitution-making processes carried out by sovereign states? Should such processes follow international human rights law and international economic law? If so, how? Is sovereignty at risk when states cede to international organizations too much power and influence?

The Rutgers Center for Transnational Law and The Diego Portales School of Law (Chile) will host a symposium that will analyze these and other questions concerning the role of international law in the drafting of new constitutions, with a focus on the constituent process that is currently taking place in Chile—one that scholars around the world follow with great anticipation, as it is the first process in the world which has full gender parity and an enhanced role for indigenous peoples. By convening comparative constitutional scholars and international lawyers, we plan to discuss and reflect on the risks and possibilities that international law poses to countries that use international law in their constituent processes.

Professor Richard Albert from the University of Texas and Professor Mila Versteeg from the University of Virginia School of Law will give keynote addresses.

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Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words to ctl@law.rutgers.edu or programaderechopublico@mail.udp.cl by April 1st, 2022, with the subject line “Rutgers/UDP Symposium.”

The symposium has secured funding to support a number the travel and accommodation of a number of participants. If you can partially support your travel to Philadelphia, please indicate so in your application.

Selected papers will be published in English in the Rutgers International Law & Human Rights Journal,and in Spanish in the Anuario de Derecho Público, published by the Diego Portales Law School.

Questions? Email jorge.contesse@rutgers.edu or domingo.lovera@udp.cl.