Conference: 'The Colombian Constitutional Court in a Global Perspective' - 24-25 January 2019

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Every year, the Colombian Constitutional Court organizes an international event to discuss recent global constitutional law scholarship and domestic decisions. This year Justice Linares is in charge of organizing the event. As a result, the Court will host an academic conference regarding the “Colombian Constitutional Court in a global perspective”. The event will take place in Bogotá D.C., in January 24 and 25, 2019, and will gather leading scholars in different fields of Constitutional law, the panels will cover the role of constitutional courts in a modern democracy, social and economic rights constitutionalism, unconstitutional constitutional amendments, transitional justice and constitutionalism, the role of foreign and international law in domestic constitutionalism and transformations and best practices in the judiciary. The event also seeks to open a discussion on how the Colombian Scholars assess the work that has been done by the Court, for such purpose, there will be a panel to discuss the court from a national perspective.